Quapaw
noun
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Arkansas, now living mostly in northeastern Oklahoma.
Quapaws
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pluralof Quapaw.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In 1818, the Quapaws yielded up 29,000,000 acres for 4,000 dollars.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Sioux, Otoes, Omahaws, Osages, and Quapaws, constitute the leading members of this group.
From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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
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
