Quapaw

American  

[kwaw-paw] / ˈkwɔˌpɔ /

noun

• Quapaws,
  plural
• Quapaw
  plural

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.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Quapaw
  plural
• Quapaws
  plural

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Example Sentences

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Quapaw Quapaws

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

Here, about an hour southwest of Little Rock, tourists may take a traditional thermal bath at Buckstaff Bathhouse, Quapaw Baths and Spa or the Arlington Hotel.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2016

“The Quapaw families had lots of traditions,” I mumbled.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

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 John Mason Peck

The Quapaws, called by their Algonkin foes the Alkansas or Arkansas, settled on the Ohio, but were ultimately driven down the river by the Illinois to the region now bearing their name.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson

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 Annie Heloise Abel

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

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

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