TAILIEUCHUNG - Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - Q,R

Tự điển chuyên ngành nông nghiệp thế giới Vol1 - Bắc Mỹ - Vần Q,R | 300 Quapaw Quapaw The Quapaw Kwapa Akansa Arkansas lived at or near the mouth of the Arkansas River where it meets the Mississippi River in southeastern Arkansas. They now live on a federal trust area in northeastern Oklahoma. They speak a Dhegiha Siouan language and numbered over twelve hundred in the 1980s. Bibliography Baird W. David 1979 . The Quapaw Indians A History of the Downstream People. Norman University of Oklahoma Press. Thompson V. H. 1955 . A History of the Quapaw. Chronicles of Oklahoma 33 360-383. Quechan ETHNONYMS Cuchano Cuchan Cushan Yum Yuma Orientation Identification. The Quechan are an American Indian group located in western Arizona and eastern California. Quechan meaning those who descended is a shortening of the name that the Quechan believe was given to them and to other lower Colorado peoples at the time of creation on the sacred mountain Avikwame Xám Kwacan meaning those who descended by a different way or those who descended by way of the water. Location. Aboriginally the Quechan lived along the lower Colorado River north and south of its junction with the Gila River. This area lies primarily within the present states of California and Arizona. Their reservation today is a small portion of their aboriginal territory. Demography. The population may have been about four thousand prior to contact with Spaniards in 1540. By the early 1900s there were fewer than a thousand. In 1988 the Quechan population was estimated at two thousand about two-thirds of whom lived on or adjacent to the reservation. Linguistic Affiliation. Quechan is classified in the Yuman subfamily of the Hokan language family. Those living in the extreme southern portions of their territory may have spoken a distinct dialect of Quechan. History and Cultural Relations Quechan tradition describes their creation along with that of other lower Colorado River tribes by their culture hero Kukumat. After Kukumat died his son Kumastamxo took the people to the sacred mountain .

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