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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. Incorporated in 1917, [4] Quapaw's population was 811 in 2020. [5]
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 ...
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.
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.
Ottawa County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,285. [1] Its county seat is Miami. [2] The county was named for the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma. [3] It is also the location of the federally recognized Modoc Nation and the Quapaw Nation, which is based in Quapaw.
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 ...
Opened in 2021 after more than a decade of research and work, the center tells the 14,000-year-history of the Chahta people, showcases the Choctaw history and culture and serves as a place to ...
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names.