Quapaws
- plural of Quapaw.
Example Sentences
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The Quapaws, who had been early driven from their homes and once restored,550 had left them again when they found that their country had been denuded of all its portable resources.
From The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Abel, Annie Heloise
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
In 1818, the Quapaws yielded up 29,000,000 acres for 4,000 dollars.
From American Institutions and Their Influence by Tocqueville, Alexis de
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
