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The Quapaw (/ ˈ k w ɔː p ɔː / KWAW-paw, [2] Quapaw: Ogáxpa) or Arkansas, officially the Quapaw Nation, [3] is a U.S. federally recognized tribe comprising about 6,000 citizens. . Also known as the Ogáxpa or “Downstream” people, their ancestral homelands are traced from what is now the Ohio River, west to the Mississippi River to present-day St. Louis, south across present-day ...
Last hereditary Chief of the Quapaw Tribe to be chosen in the traditional manner Tall Chief (ca. 1840–1918) was a hereditary chief of the Quapaw Tribe and a peyote roadman . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He served in this position after his father, Lame Chief, died in 1874, until his own death in 1918 at around 78 years old.
His Quapaw name, Honganozhe, translates to "One Who Stands With Eagles". Ballard's education began at the Seneca Indian Training School when he was six years old. The Seneca Indian Training School, a boarding school located in Wyandotte, Oklahoma , was established in the early 1870s and was initially a mission school supported by a local group ...
Oct. 4—QUAPAW, Okla. — A decade ago, the Quapaw Nation was concerned about the EPA's plans to clean mining chat and debris from a 40-acre site just east of the town of Quapaw. This site was ...
This tribe coalesced and inhabited the area near the Ohio and Wabash rivers around year 1600. [6] As the tribe migrated west, it split into what became the Omaha and the Quapaw tribes. The Quapaw settled in what is now Arkansas and the Omaha, known as U-Mo'n-Ho'n ("upstream") [7] settled near the Missouri River in what is now northwestern Iowa.
The northeastern part of Oklahoma is home to eight federally recognized tribal nations, including the Quapaw. It was originally Quapaw land; they were forcibly removed from Arkansas to there in ...
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Anyone with information about Aubrey’s case is asked to call the Quapaw Nation Marshal Service at 918-238-3137 or Central Dispatch at 918-542-5585. If you have a story to share with Dateline ...