Native American Research and Historical Preservation Society
Information About the Quapaw Tribe
Quapaw Tribal Museum Hours
Monday Closed
Tuesday 1-5 pm
Wednesday 8-5 pm
Thurdsay 8-5 pm
Friday 8-4 pm
Saturday 8-5 pm
Sunday 1-5 pm
CLOSED ALL FEDERAL HOLIDAYS
903 Whitebird St.
Quapaw, OK 74363
Phone: (918) 674-2420
The Quapaw and other Dhegiha people were once a single group located near the mouth of the Ohio River.
In the early 1600's, the Quapaw left the group and followed the Ohio River downstream to the Mississippi River, settling on the land which is now Arkansas. In 1818, the U.S. obtained land from the tribe encompassing southern Arkansas, Oklahoma and part of Louisiana.
The only tract of land that was left to them was a small parcel on the south side of the Arkansas River. In 1824, the U.S. forced the Quapaw to yield their remaining lands, terminating their claim to Arkansas. Following this loss of lands, the Quapaw were removed to the Red river in northwestern Louisiana, where they suffered floods and destruction of crops.
Over the next six years, the surviving tribal members moved back to Arkansas, and in 1833, the tribe was removed from Arkansas for the last time. They moved to northeastern Indian Territory and established villages, only to find they had settled on lands belonging to the Seneca tribe. Dismayed, the Quapaw broke into three bands and separated. By 1859, in anticipation of the sale of reservation land in Kansas 345 of the 400 tribal members returned to the Quapaw reservation in Indian Territory.
With the onset of the Civil War the tribe fled to Kansas, and by 1879, two-thirds were living with the Osage. With the threat of losing their reservation lands, a number of Quapaw began to return from the Osage reservation. In an unprecedented move, the tribe voted to allot their land among themselves, an allotment ratified by Congress in 1895.
The Quapaw were primarily farmers, raising corn, beans, squash, gourds, melons and tobacco. Their villages contained several dome-shaped, bark-covered long housed, each occupied by several families. Positions of political power and religious leadership were held exclusively by men.
There are two websites you can visit to obtain more information:
http://www.quapawtribe.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/1388/
The Portrait displayed is Edward Robert Quapaw (father of J.E. Pud Quapaw)
PHOTOGRAPH is by CHARLES BANKS WILSON "DRAWING OF QUAPAWS"
The title is "Arkansea Indian (Quapaw) Circa 1700 with Calumets." The original was a pencil drawing that shows model Ed Quapaw, a three-quarter blood Quapaw with a mixture of Peoria and Shawnee, holding two feather-decorated pipes. The subject appears with the body decoration, hairdress, and other decorations of a seventeenth-century Quapaw. DATE: 1986 or before
The brass eched protraits (2) now hang in the Downstream Casino in Ok. This picture does not do the portrait justice, it stands 8 ft by 6 ft on the full length of the wall to the entrance to the Lobby and in the sitting area, near a fireplace. Many other pictures line the walls around the Brass portrait.
Monday Closed
Tuesday 1-5 pm
Wednesday 8-5 pm
Thurdsay 8-5 pm
Friday 8-4 pm
Saturday 8-5 pm
Sunday 1-5 pm
CLOSED ALL FEDERAL HOLIDAYS
903 Whitebird St.
Quapaw, OK 74363
Phone: (918) 674-2420
The Quapaw and other Dhegiha people were once a single group located near the mouth of the Ohio River.
In the early 1600's, the Quapaw left the group and followed the Ohio River downstream to the Mississippi River, settling on the land which is now Arkansas. In 1818, the U.S. obtained land from the tribe encompassing southern Arkansas, Oklahoma and part of Louisiana.
The only tract of land that was left to them was a small parcel on the south side of the Arkansas River. In 1824, the U.S. forced the Quapaw to yield their remaining lands, terminating their claim to Arkansas. Following this loss of lands, the Quapaw were removed to the Red river in northwestern Louisiana, where they suffered floods and destruction of crops.
Over the next six years, the surviving tribal members moved back to Arkansas, and in 1833, the tribe was removed from Arkansas for the last time. They moved to northeastern Indian Territory and established villages, only to find they had settled on lands belonging to the Seneca tribe. Dismayed, the Quapaw broke into three bands and separated. By 1859, in anticipation of the sale of reservation land in Kansas 345 of the 400 tribal members returned to the Quapaw reservation in Indian Territory.
With the onset of the Civil War the tribe fled to Kansas, and by 1879, two-thirds were living with the Osage. With the threat of losing their reservation lands, a number of Quapaw began to return from the Osage reservation. In an unprecedented move, the tribe voted to allot their land among themselves, an allotment ratified by Congress in 1895.
The Quapaw were primarily farmers, raising corn, beans, squash, gourds, melons and tobacco. Their villages contained several dome-shaped, bark-covered long housed, each occupied by several families. Positions of political power and religious leadership were held exclusively by men.
There are two websites you can visit to obtain more information:
http://www.quapawtribe.com/
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/1388/
The Portrait displayed is Edward Robert Quapaw (father of J.E. Pud Quapaw)
PHOTOGRAPH is by CHARLES BANKS WILSON "DRAWING OF QUAPAWS"
The title is "Arkansea Indian (Quapaw) Circa 1700 with Calumets." The original was a pencil drawing that shows model Ed Quapaw, a three-quarter blood Quapaw with a mixture of Peoria and Shawnee, holding two feather-decorated pipes. The subject appears with the body decoration, hairdress, and other decorations of a seventeenth-century Quapaw. DATE: 1986 or before
The brass eched protraits (2) now hang in the Downstream Casino in Ok. This picture does not do the portrait justice, it stands 8 ft by 6 ft on the full length of the wall to the entrance to the Lobby and in the sitting area, near a fireplace. Many other pictures line the walls around the Brass portrait.
