Word: arapaho
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...slope of the Rockies along the South Platte River in Colorado. His aim is to use the territory around the South Platte as a means of describing nothing less than the evolution of the American West. When he has disposed of prehistory, Michener introduces his first human character, an Arapaho warrior named Lame Beaver, born in 1747. By the time the book arrives at 1972-with doleful references to Watergate and the ecological crisis-Michener has some 70-odd more chief human characters, along with hundreds of bit players. They include all the tribes of the West, Homerically described...
...tribes were gathered for their annual powwow in Sheridan, Wyoming. The Arapaho came, and the Shoshoni and the Cheyenne. And as they met, they pondered the weighty question: Who would be elected Miss Indian American of 1966? Last year it was a Kiowa squaw and before that an Arapaho. This year the judges faced south and chose a pretty Pueblo maiden. As beauty queens go, Wahleah Lujan, 18, might be a mite plump, but she had a face Pocahontas could envy and plenty of other assets: a sophomore at Colorado's Fort Lewis College, her primitive Indian abstractions...
Garroway used to raise his hand each morning like an Arapaho chief and sign off with the word "Peace." He now raises his hand and says "Courage." He says he is ready to return to commercial TV, and his producing company intends to package at least two shows for next year. Meanwhile he has been reading the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski. He would like to do a series for NET on semantics in an effort to break down what he describes as artificial barriers to communication among specialists in various fields If he ever brings something like that...
Hippophobe. At Fort Logan, Colo., a full-blooded Arapaho Indian, away from home for the first time, told Army officers he was a poor bet for the cavalry: he was afraid of horses...