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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.
Grand Entry at the 1983 Omaha Pow-wow Men's traditional dancers, Montana, 2007 Pow-Wow in Wendake, Quebec/Canada, 2014. A powwow (also pow wow or pow-wow) is a gathering with dances held by many Native American and First Nations communities. Inaugurated in 1923, powwows today are an opportunity for Indigenous people to socialize, dance, sing ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
When mining began in the area, most of the land was owned by the federally recognized Quapaw tribe. Following the Oklahoma Organic Act, an 1897 court ruling would allow allotted land to be leased for the purpose of mining but this was later curtailed by numerous subsequent lawsuits. Because of mismanagement by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, only ...
The Gathering of Nations is the largest pow-wow in the United States and North America. [2] It is held annually on the fourth weekend in April, on the Powwow Grounds at Expo NM, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Over 565 tribes from around the United States and 220 from Canada travel to Albuquerque to participate.