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Definition: Quapaw from Rourke's Native American History & Culture Encyclopedia

(also known as the Arkansas) is the Native American tribe that once lived in Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Their name means downstream people. They lived in villages and their square homes had thatched roofs supported by walls made of plaster and river cane. Their women grew corn, beans, and squash. Their men fished and hunted small game and buffalo. They made beautiful pottery and built mounds for graves and religious sites. By 1824, the United States pressured the Quapaw to move from their lands. Today, many live in Oklahoma, where they hold an intertribal powwow each year.


Quapaw

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of an American Indian people who probably originated in the Ohio Valley, but had migrated to the Mississippi–Arkansas river confluence (northern Arkansas) by the mid-16th century. They speak a Siouan -Dhegiha dialect. A settled agricultural culture, they lived in palisaded villages and built earth mounds for their temples and graves. In the 1700s they acquired horses and hunted buffalo like the Plains Indians . After ceding their land in the early 19th century, they eventually moved to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). The Quapaw now have an estimated population of 2,000, many of whom live in Oklahoma. Income has been generated from rich deposits of lead and zinc on their lands. The Quapaw are related to the Kaw (Kansa), Osage , Omaha , and Ponca, sharing the same Siouan dialect. Traditionally they lived in bark-covered, rectangular, dome-topped longhouses that were arranged around a central open space. They grew maize (corn), beans, squash (pumpkins), melons, and tobacco; …
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From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures Full text Article The Americas
A Native North American nation, now of Oklahoma. Their name means ‘downstream people’, although they call themselves Ugakhpa. Sedentary farmers, hunters and gatherers, they spoke a Siouan language. Originally of the Ohio river valley, the IROQUOIS pushed them south to the Arkansas River by the late…
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Full text Article Quapaw

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of an American Indian people who probably originated in the Ohio Valley, but had migrated to the Mississippi–Arkansas river confluence (northern Arkansas) by the mid-16th century. They speak a Siouan -Dhegiha dialect. A settled agricultural culture, they lived in palisaded villages and built…
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Full text Article Quapaw

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(kwô'pô), Native North Americans, also called the Arkansas, whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). The Quapaw were essentially of the Plains culture, but they had other distinctive traits; they built temple and burial mounds…
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Current Locations: Oklahoma Language Family: Siouan The Quapaw migrated out of the Ohio River Valley around 1200 to present-day Arkansas. Although a smaller group than many of their Native neighbors, the Quapaw flourished with a highly developed agricultural economy and close-knit clan and kin…
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Full text Article Quapaw

From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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Map of Indian territories, depicting three villages of Quapaw tribe, painted buffalo skins, 18th Century
Credit: Map of Indian territories, depicting three villages of Quapaw tribe, painted buffalo skins, 18th Century / De Agostini Picture Library / The Bridgeman Art Library Description: Cartography, United States of America, 18th century. Map of Indian territories, depicting three villages of the…
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Full text Article STRANGERS ON THE SHORE

From Handy Answer: Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples Full text Article MIDWEST
The decline of the largest city in North America didn't signal that Native people ceased their industry. Between 1539 and 1543, when the Spanish prospector Hernando de Soto ravaged his way across Mississippiana with soldiers, dogs, and guns, he noted that the Quapaw Tribe's territory—today's…
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Full text Article Cardin, Fred

From Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century
Also known as: Pejawah (b. 1895–d. 1960) Miami-Quapaw musician conductor, composer A Miami-Quapaw, William Frederick “Pejawah” Cardin was born on April 18, 1895, near Quapaw, Oklahoma, the eldest of two children of John Alexander Cardin and Martha Ella (Kenoyer) Cardin. His grandfather, Thomas…
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Full text Article Larkin, Moscelyne

From Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century
(b. 1925–d. 2012) Shawnee-Peoria ballerina Edna Moscelyne Larkin was born in Miami, Oklahoma, on January 14, 1925. Her father, Reuben “Babe” Larkin, a stenographer, was Shawnee-Peoria, and her mother, Eva Matlagova, was a Russian dancer. At the age of 15, Larkin joined the Ballet Russe, rising to…
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