Quapaw
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Quapaws,
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Quapaw
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Arkansas, now living mostly in northeastern Oklahoma.
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the Siouan language of the Quapaw.
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This year, the Quapaw Nation in Oklahoma started working on a holistic defense program after seeing a sharp increase in cases following a U.S.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 20, 2023
Farrell was born in Quapaw, Okla., on March 1, 1938.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
Since then, lower courts have found the reservations of five other Native American tribes were also never disestablished, including the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole and Quapaw.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
Betty is a member of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, which was based in Arkansas before being forcefully relocated to Oklahoma in the 1800s, and she felt as if she were returning home.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
“The Quapaw families had lots of traditions,” I mumbled.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
In 1818, the Quapaws yielded up 29,000,000 acres for 4,000 dollars.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
Even the Federal army preyed upon it and, as all the able-bodied male Quapaws were gradually drawn into that army, there was no way of defending it.
From The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel
The Quapaws were originally connected with the Osages.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
Those first visited by La Salle were the Kappas or Quapaws, a remnant of whom still subsists.
From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Francis Parkman
Other tribes that were located on small reservations in the northeast part of the Territory were the Modocs, Ottawas, Peorias, Quapaws, Senecas, Shawnees and Wyandottes.
From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Robert Elliott Flickinger
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