Quapaw

Speech parts

1. Quapaw - Noun

2. Quapaw - Proper noun

Meaning

the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Quapaw

a member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas

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Examples

New York: Doubleday, p. 232. The area, already occupied by Osage and Quapaw tribes, was called for the Choctaw Nation until revised Native American and then later American policy redefined the boundaries to include other Native Americans. Source: Internet

The word "Arkansas" itself is a French pronunciation ("Arcansas") of a Quapaw (a related "Kaw" tribe) word, akakaze, meaning "land of downriver people" or the Sioux word akakaze meaning "people of the south wind". Source: Internet

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