They issue their own tribal vehicle tags and have their own housing authority. The tribe operates a Tribal Police Department and a Fire Department, which handles both fire and EMS calls. Membership in the tribe is based on lineal descent. Of the 3,240 enrolled tribal members, 892 live in the state of Oklahoma. (Prior to 1956 the Quapaw Tribe operated on a traditional, hereditary chief system). The governing body of the tribe is outlined in the governing resolutions of the tribe, which were voted upon and approved in 1956 to create a written form of government. The Quapaw people elect a tribal council and the tribal chairman, who serves a two-year term. They have a 13,000-acre (53В km 2) Quapaw tribal jurisdictional area. Today the Quapaw Nation is headquartered in Quapaw in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, in the northeast corner of the state.

Quapaw 'Three Villages' Robe, Arkansas, 18th century. The number of members enrolled in the tribe was 3,240 in 2011. The US federal government removed them to Indian Territory in 1834, and their tribal base has been in present-day Ottawa County in northeastern Oklahoma.

The Quapaw are federally recognized as the Quapaw Nation.

The Dhegiha Siouan-speaking tribe historically migrated from the Ohio Valley area to the west side of the Mississippi River and resettled in what is now the state of Arkansas their name for themselves (or autonym) refers to this migration and to traveling downriver. The Quapaw ( / Л€ k w Й”Лђ p Й”Лђ/ KWAW-paw or Arkansas and Ugahxpa) people are a tribe of Native Americans that coalesced in what is known as the Midwest and Ohio Valley of the present-day United States. Christianity ( Roman Catholicism), traditional tribal religion, Big Moon and Little Moon Native American ChurchДhegihan peoples: Osage, Omaha, Ponca, Kansa

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