1. Quapaw - Noun
2. Quapaw - Proper noun
the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Quapaw
a member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas
Source: WordNetNew 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