QUAPAW, Okla. — Hundreds of visitors watched brightly-colored dancers and listened to songs of the “O-Gah-Pah” people — the downstream people — as the Quapaw tribe began its three-day powwow. The name ...

QUAPAW, Okla. (AP) -- The Quapaw Tribe has acquired additional property in southeastern Kansas along the Oklahoma border after gaining approval from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Joplin ...

The Quapaw Nation Business Committee unanimously approved a law exercising special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction (SDVCJ) over non-Indians Wednesday. The Quapaw Nation invoked special ...

Editor’s Note: With the Saracen Casino Resort coming to Pine Bluff next year, many have been researching the Quapaw Tribe, whose group, Downstream Development Authority, is backing the operation. Here ...

Editor’s Note: With the groundbreaking for the Saracen Casino Resort taking place last week, there have been numerous questions sent to the Pine Bluff Commercial asking for historical context on Chief ...

The Quapaw tribe first appeared in the historical account of Arkansas in 1673, when it encountered a group of French explorers in the Mississippi River Valley, led by Father Jacques Marquette and ...

QUAPAW, Okla. -- The former chairman and secretary-treasurer for the Quapaw Nation have been charged in tribal court with embezzlement, abuse of office and other charges. Former Chairman John Berrey ...

The Quapaw Tribe signed agreements today with law enforcement agencies, giving them jurisdiction to enforce tribal law and operate within the tribe’s newly defined reservation. The reservation ...

WASHINGTON — Members of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma are awaiting action on legislation that would authorize $137.5 million in payments to conclude a 17-year dispute over the federal government’s ...

QUAPAW, Okla. — Leaders of the Quapaw Nation are unhappy with the depiction of their tribe in a television drama about a mafia boss. Sylvester Stallone films scene at Mickey Mantle’s childhood home In ...

Before European settlers came to what we now call the Ohio River Valley, the Dehiga Sioux were on the move. Migrating west out of the Ohio River Valley, the large group came across the Mississippi ...

QUAPAW, Okla. (AP) - The former chairman and secretary-treasurer for the Quapaw Nation have been charged in tribal court with embezzlement, abuse of office and other charges. Former Chairman John ...