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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.
The Quapaw Indians: a History of the Downstream People, University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. Dubuisson, Ann. “François Sarazin: Interpreter at Arkansas Post during the Chickasaw Wars”, in Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 71, No. 3, Autumn 2012. Izard, George. “Brief Notes Respecting the Territory of Arkansas”.
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 ...
It was originally Quapaw land; they were forcibly removed from Arkansas to there in the early 1800s. Today, Picher has the distinction of being the site of one of the biggest cleanups of hazardous ...
Victor Griffin (c. 1873–1958) was the elected chief of Quapaw Tribe of Indians and a peyote roadman [2] from Quapaw, Oklahoma.Griffin was commonly called either Victor or Vic, and rarely used his first name, William.
The reports for Quapaw Agency, 1874–1898, are on rolls 41-42 of that Microcopy set[5]. Copies are available at the National Archives, their Regional Archives, and at the Family History Library and its family history centers (their microfilm roll numbers 1617714-1617715).
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 ...