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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 ...
Tall Chief was born around 1840 in Indian Territory along the Neosho River in what is now Kansas at a Quapaw village referred to as Hu-cha-pa Tah-wha. His father was a hereditary Chief named Ka-hi-ka te-dah, or Lame Chief, and his mother was named Mi-ska no-zhe, or White Sun Standing; both of Tall Chief's parents were Quapaw.
The Quapaw Indian Agency was a territory that included parts of the present-day Oklahoma counties of Ottawa and Delaware. Established in the late 1830s as part of lands allocated to the Cherokee Nation, this area was later leased by the federal government and known as the Leased District. The area that became known as the Quapaw Agency Lands ...
Delaware Tribe of Indians: Lenape: 10,500 3,360 Bartlesville: n/a Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma ... Quapaw Nation: Quapaw: 3,240 892 Quapaw: Ottawa: Sac and Fox ...
Quapaw, officially the Town of Quapaw, is a town in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States, which serves as the capital of the Quapaw Nation. Located about 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Miami , it is part of the Joplin, Missouri metropolitan area .
Saracen, also known as Sarazin, Sarasen and Sarasin, [1] was a French-Quapaw man known during the 1800s by some European Americans as an honorary "chief". Saracen witnessed the removal of his people from traditional land in Arkansas to Indian Territory.
In that year, it was renamed as the Quapaw Agency, serving only the tribes in Indian Territory. [3] The Modoc band led by Captain Jack in northern California was exiled and relocated here in 1873, after being taken as prisoner following their defeat in the Modoc War. The 153 members were settled at the Quapaw Agency.
The site is also considered to be the location of the protohistoric Quapaw village of Osotouy (or Ossoteoue) first encountered by French explorers in the late 17th century. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Quapaw at the time had four villages, Kappa, Ossoteoue, Touriman, and Tonginga.