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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Farrell was born in Quapaw, Okla., on March 1, 1938.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
The Quapaw and Caddo peoples lived here for thousands of years, mining the region’s ubiquitous novaculite, a type of flint stone, for weapons.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 6, 2020
According to the Pine Bluff Commercial , Quapaw Chairman John Berrey told local officials that construction costs for the planned casino and resort will be about $210 million to $240 million.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2019
Federal investigators say in court documents that Brigaudin spent more than $10 million on slot machines and withdrew about $8.4 million at a casino in Quapaw, Oklahoma between January 2009 and April 2015.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2018
“Fathers were real important to the Quapaw, so if yours died, you had to get another one. Instead of letting the grownups decide, they let the kids choose.”
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
The Quapaws were originally connected with the Osages.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
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 Parkman, Francis
Among the Quapaws, as I have been informed, the husband, on the consummation of his marriage, presents his wife with a leg of deer, and she in return offers him an ear of maize.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 by Jones, James Athearn
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 Abel, Annie Heloise
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 Flickinger, Robert Elliott
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