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Definition of Quapaw
1. Noun. A member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas.
2. Noun. The Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Quapaw.
Definition of Quapaw
1. Noun. Any of a Native American people who once lived in the Arkansas river valley. ¹
2. Proper noun. The dialect of Dhegiha spoken by these people. ¹
3. Proper noun. A town in Oklahoma. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quapaw
Literary usage of Quapaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"... as soon as the same can be done with convenience, and shall not be sold or
disposed of, by the said quapaw tribe or nation, to any individual whatever, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"According to concurrent tradition of the cognate tribes the quapaw and their
kinsmen originally lived far east, possibly beyond the Alleghenies, and, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"According to concurrent tradition of the cognate tribes the quapaw and their
kinsmen originally lived far east, possibly beyond the Alleghenies, and, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"According to concurrent tradition of the cognate tribes the quapaw and their
kinsmen originally lived far east, possibly beyond the Alleghenies, and, ..."
5. Indian Land Laws: Being a Treatise on Indianland Titles in Oklahoma and by Samuel Thomas Bledsoe (1913)
"Descent—quapaw.—Allotment of the quapaw Reservation was made under an Act of the
... This act prescribed no rule of descent for allotted quapaw lands. ..."
6. Preliminary Report on the Lead and Zinc of Oklahoma by Luther Crocker Snider (1912)
"The quapaw or Lincolnville Camp. As is the case for the Peoria camp, the quapaw
camp has shown little development since 1907 when the article by Siebenthal, ..."
7. Life and Letters of Fathers Ponziglione, Schoenmakers, and Other Early by William Whites Graves (1916)
"In the spring of 1852 a quapaw Indian came to visit the school. ... Father Bax
did some work among the quapaw Indians and won their friendship to such an ..."
8. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"Deeds of real estate within the quapaw Agency are required to be recorded ...
742, an act of the quapaw council, setting apart certain land for school and ..."
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