Economy For The Survival Of Northern Arapaho Tribe

By Tammie Caldwell


The human population can be divided into ethnicity. Having many tribes can be very helpful in giving distinction. Even in the technology-lade areas, tribes still exist for the purpose of making a distinction with regards to history and culture. Better distinction can be given to groups of people when their tribes become known to others.

There are numerous ethnicity and tribes around, depending on factors such as geography or history. One of the most popular tribes that people should know about is the Northern Arapaho tribe. The people belonging to this usually recognize themselves as Hiinono'ei. That term can be translated as wrongrooters, our people, or cloud people.

These people have a territory that covers settlements in Wyoming areas such as St. Stephens, Ethete, and Arapahoe. In the past, the territory of the said people span a greater area, having the Big Horn Mountain in the north to the Arkansas River in the south as well as the Black Hills in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west. They have this territory to themselves in the past.

The economy of the Hiinono'ei should not be underestimated. They have supported themselves with their own trade. If you want to know more about them, it is only a given that you look into what kind of trade they are into. Here are some of the important elements of the economy of the Hiinono'ei these days.

Subsistence. These people take pride in the fact that they are able to get enough sustenance to support their survival. They will commonly hunt in their surrounding nature and trade what they have to obtain the things that other tribes or settlements specialize in. Since they are nomadic hunters, subsistence is easy for them.

Industrial arts can also be a pride of the wrongrooters. They create things that are necessary in making their work more efficient. Whether it be for the men or the women of their people, they make arts that are useful to work. One example they always take pride is is the bow and arrow created respectively from the osage wood and the dogwood.

Trade. With their line of work being in hunting, trading should be a good way for them to obtain other stuff aside from what they get in their territories. The said people usually bring what they have hunted in the nearby settlements or tribes. They, then, conduct a trade with these settlements or tribes.

Division of labor is also one of the things that the said people do their best in. Every member of the Hiinono'ei have a job assigned to them. For example, unmarried young women help with the household together with their mothers. Married adult women do the cooking and storage. Married men and unmarried men also have roles in hunting, though their specific roles are defined according to their age.

Land tenure. The government will usually give acknowledgment to the territories that these tribes protect. Their territories will usually span from those patented lands they have continuously protected from way back. Through land tenure, these people can enjoy profits that are necessary for their survival.




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