Friday

Teenokuhu One day in 1831, when Teenokuhuh was just a boy, he and his band were camping next to the Cimarron River alongside a band of Gros Ventre (Atsina) Indians in what is today Dodge City, Kansas. In the melee, Teenokuhuh and two boys were separated from their people and became lost in the Colorado Territory where they wandered for several days. At some point, Fitzpatrick was a United States Agent for the Arapaho. he traveled with and translated for the explorers John C. Frémont in 1843 and Rufus Sage in the spring of 1844, when Sage traveled along the Arkansas River (in southern Colorado). During the negotiations, Friday left for Washington, D.C., with other Arapaho and Cheyenne delegates to resolve some concerns.

Friday's band diminished in size due to attacks by the United States Army, disease, and hunger.

Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 Friday was hired by government peace commissioners, in early 1868 to communicate an ultimatum to the Northern Arapaho band that they would need to sign a treaty to continue to get provisions. The Northern Arapaho and Northern Cheyenne met at Fort Laramie and signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie on May 10, 1868. Black Bear, Little Wolf, Littlesheild, Medicine Man, and Sorrel Horse signed for the Northern Arahapo, who agreed to settle on one of three reservations in one year. Their options were with the Lakota people on the Missouri River, with southern Arapaho and Cheyenne people in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), or with the Crow people on the Yellowstone River in Montana Territory. Friday and other Northern Arapaho met with President Rutherford B. Hayes and Interior Secretary Carl Schurz in September 1877. It was Friday's last trip to Washington, D.C., where the leaders lobbied for a reservation for the Northern Arapaho in Wyoming. One month later the Northern Arapaho returned to the Wind River Indian Reservation, where they lived alongside the Shoshone. Friday lived at Wind River until his death on May 1881, perhaps near Fort Washakie.