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- Region
- Plains
In the record
The United States made 5 treaties and agreements that name Quapaw as a party, from Quapaw at St. Louis (1818) to Seneca; Mixed Seneca and Shawnee; Quapaw; Confederated Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, and Piankashaw; Miami; Ottawa; and Wyandot at Washington, DC (1867).
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 10 cessions of land from Quapaw: about 37 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 8 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Quapaw in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, ceded 1818 (area 94), about 35 million acres, ceded under Quapaw at St. Louis (1818).
Today, Quapaw Nation carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Official names
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement36 million
- Removal treaty1 million
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
10 cessions. Follow Quapaw through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Land recorded in this nation’s name 10
- Land of the Quapaw in Arkansas, ceded 1824 (area 121)1818matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Quapaw in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, ceded 1818 (area 94)1818matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 498)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 500)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 501)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 504)1832matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma, recorded 1832 (area 499)1832as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Kansas, ceded 1867 (area 503)1833matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Reservation of the Kaskaskia, Mixed Seneka and others in Oklahoma (area 505)1833matched by the Forest Service, under review
- Land of the Certain Wyandot, Kaskaskia and others in Oklahoma, ceded 1867 (area 502)1867matched by the Forest Service, under review
Party to 5
- Quapaw at St. Louis (1818)1818
- Quapaw at Harrington's, Arkansas Territory (1824)1824
- Quapaw at New Gascony, Arkansas Territory (1833)1833
- Treaty of Camp Holmes with the Comanche, Wichita and others, 18351835
- Seneca; Mixed Seneca and Shawnee; Quapaw; Confederated Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, and Piankashaw; Miami; Ottawa; and Wyandot at Washington, DC (1867)1867
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- quapawtribe.com/401/Quapaw-Nation-Tribal-Name-Origin-and-Hisunclassified
this is the origin of the word Ogaxpa, which can be translated as "downstream people".
- govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-30/html/2026-01899.htmprimary record
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