Quapaw

[ kwaw-paw ]

noun

, plural Qua·paws, (especially collectively) Qua·paw

1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Arkansas, now living mostly in northeastern Oklahoma.
2. the Siouan language of the Quapaw.

Example Sentences

They occupy a reservation of 72,000 acres, adjoining the Quapaw reservation on the south and west.

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He lives in his native Oklahoma with his wife, a Quapaw Indian princess, and their two children.

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The Quapaw or Akansa were the most southerly tribe in the main Siouan territory.

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Originally the site of the city was occupied by the Quapaw Indians.

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The name of the tribe, Quapaw, signifies "downstream people;" Omaha being translated "those going against the wind or current."

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