QUAPAW, Okla. — Ardina Moore is the granddaughter of the last chief of the Quapaw Tribe, and she grew up hearing older family members speak the Quapaw language. Now 84, Moore said, “I think I ...

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The interpreter called the Quapaw the "Akansea," the word for Quapaw in his language. Marquette and Joliet used that term for these people and the river along which they lived.

The Quapaw Nation has spent 11 years remediating the ghost town Picher, Oklahoma, which covers 80 percent of their reservation, in an effort to give their land an agricultural future. “It will ...

Their names mark rivers, valleys, schools and communities across the state, recalling the people who were settled in Arkansas when Europeans first arrived in the 1500s.

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.