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
John L. Berrey, chairman of the Quapaw Nation and the Saracen Development Authority, said the Downstream Casino Resort is working on a reopening plan to be carried out at the appropriate time.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 24, 2020
“What I don’t understand, in any of his op-ed, there’s no recognition of the true value of the tribes,” said John Berrey, chairman of the Quapaw Nation, which operates two casinos in northeast Oklahoma.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2019
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
“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
This route necessarily runs through the lands of the Cherokee Indians or through the small reservations of the Quapaws, the Peorias, the Ottawas, the Wyandottes, and the Senecas.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Cleveland, Grover
The Osages or Wos-sosh-ees, Quapaws, Kanzaus, Ottoes, O'Mahaus, Pawnees and Puncahs have made much less improvement in their mode of living.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
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
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
It was much the same with near neighbors of the Quapaws, with the Senecas and the Seneca-Shawnees.
From The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Abel, Annie Heloise
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