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Quapaw
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (June 2013) |
Ogáxpa | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| 6,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 United States ( Oklahoma) | |
| Languages | |
| English, Quapaw[1] | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Catholicism), traditional tribal religion, Big Moon and Little Moon Native American Church | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Dhegihan peoples: Osage, Omaha, Ponca, Kansa |
The Quapaw (/ˈkwɔːpɔː/ 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 Arkansas and eastern and southern Oklahoma.[4] The government forcibly removed them from Arkansas Territory in 1834. The tribal capital is Quapaw, Oklahoma.
- ^ "Quapaw." Archived 10 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine Ethnologue. Retrieved 28 Jan 2012.
- ^ "Quapaw". The Chambers Dictionary (9th ed.). Chambers. 2003. ISBN 0-550-10105-5.
- ^ "Quapaw Nation". Indian Affairs. U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
- ^ Spears, Nancy Marie (October 21, 2021). "Quapaw Nation's reservation affirmed as Indian Country under federal law". Gaylord News. Norman, Oklahoma. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
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