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Although this book was published without a record of the translators, this task has been attributed to Michael White Hawk and the Reverend John Roberts. As the Inventory of the John Roberts Papers at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming attests (see the Rocky Mountain Online Archive), Rev. Roberts worked among the Arapaho and Shoshone peoples on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming from 1883, remaining there beyond his retirement until his death in 1949. He was recorded as the sole translator of this work in the Library of Congress Record, from its "old catalog" (see http://lccn.loc.gov/ca 17002757). However, Michael White Hawk is known to be the Arapaho first-language speaker on which this translation depended (personal communication from Dr Andrew Cowell, Director at the Center for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the West, Colorado University}.

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Since this transcription was done without the supervision or advice of Arapaho speakers the text is presented without emendation, followed by a list of possible errors.