Quapaw Nation
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: The Quapaw Nation is a U.S. federally recognized tribe comprising about 6,000 citizens. Also known as the O-ka-xpa or “Downstream” people, who lived at the area near the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers, then near confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers near modern-day St. Louis, next near the confluence of the St. Francis and Mississippi Rivers, and then near the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers. The government forced the cession of land with the treaties of 1818 and 1824, then began forcibly removing the Quapaw in 1834 as part of the 1833 treaty granting them 150 square miles of land in Indian Territory for a tribal reservation. - Quapaw Nation
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Billy Proctor Collection
Collection
Identifier: NALC-BPR
Abstract
The Billy Proctor Collection contains audio recordings documenting the Quapaw language. It consists of songs, stories, interviews, vocabulary lessons, and prayers and features the voices of Quapaw elders and linguist Robert Rankin.
Dates:
1960 - 1999
Found in:
Native American Languages Collection