Nanwuine'nan

The Nanwuine'nan, also called Nanwacinaha'ana or Nawathi'neha, the southern people, were the southernmost of the five historic tribal bands that made up the Arapaho nation, Algonquian-speaking Plains Indians. Their Nawathinehena dialect was the one most unlike the speech of the other Arapaho bands.

Like the rest of the Arapaho they came from farming villages in the western Great Lakes, moved onto the plains before 1700 under Ojibwe pressure, and took to horse-mounted bison hunting in the early eighteenth century.

As the Arapaho drifted south across the plains the Nanwuine'nan led the way; around 1811 they joined the Arapaho alliance with the Cheyenne, and in 1826 they took part in driving the Kiowa and Comanche to the south. When the nation later formed its Northern and Southern divisions, their name passed to the Southern Arapaho people as a whole.