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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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 Annie Heloise Abel
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
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 Francis Parkman
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 were originally connected with the Osages.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
