- The
tribal capital is Quapaw, Oklahoma. The
Quapaw broke from the
other Dhegiha tribes and
migrated down the
Mississippi River into present-day Arkansas...
-
single language. The same is true for
Omaha and Ponca. The 2nd
Annual Dhegiha Gathering in 2012
brought Kansa, Quapaw, Osage,
Ponca and
Omaha speakers...
- last mother-tongue speaker,
Walter Kekahbah, died in 1983.
Kansa is a
Dhegiha Siouan language, a
broader category containing other languages such as...
-
Chiwere peoples (the Iowa, Otoe, and Missouria), and more
distantly to the
Dhegiha (Quapaw, Kansa, Omaha, Ponca, and Osage). In the
story that follows, the...
- people,
which is
believed to
translate to "south wind people."
These were a
Dhegiha Siouan-speaking
people who
settled in
Arkansas around the 13th century...
- Kaw is a
member of the
Dhegiha branch of the
Siouan language family. Oral
history indicates that the
ancestors of the five
Dhegiha tribes migrated west...
- or Kansa,
Osage and Quapaw. The term "
Dhegiha"
refers to all five
Indian tribes since they each
speak a
Dhegiha Siouan language.
Besides having related...
- from the
Algonquian term, Akansa, for the
Quapaw people.
These were a
Dhegiha Siouan-speaking
people who
settled in
Arkansas around the 13th century...
- Arkansas.
Wahzhazhe is the
Osage people’s name for
themselves in the
Dhegiha Siouan language. The St.
Francois Mountains of the
Missouri Ozark Plateaus;...
- or
three nasal vowels,
depending on the variety. In the
Omaha and
Ponca Dhegiha dialects *õ and *ã have
merged unconditionally as /õ/,
which may range...
