Quapaw Nation The Quapaw Nation is a federally recognized tribe of approximately 6,060 citizens
based in Quapaw, Oklahoma. The O-Gah-Pah, or "Downstream" people, trace their ancestral
homelands from what is now known as the Ohio River, west to the Mississippi River
to present-day St. Louis, south across present-day Arkansas and eastern and southern
Oklahoma. The Nation serves its people with health care, housing, educational scholarships,
and language cultural preservation.