Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Quapaw Indians.

Covers three hundred years of the Quapaw history focusing on their ways of coping with internal and external forces affecting them.

A small tribe of Indians, the Quapaws, survived civilization. A group of criminals, the likes of Bonnie and Clyde, found refuge. The wealth that poured from the

In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and cont