A group of Native Americans of the Sioux family who lived by the mouth of the Arkansas River, hence their name, which means “the Downstream People.” They were also known by other tribes under the name of the Arkansa people.
Archeologists and explorers have found that the Quapaw lived in walled settlements and built large mounds upon which their main buildings stood. The Quapaw were evidently considered to be “troublesome” by the white settlers, and were speedily dispatched to reservations in the Indian Territory.
1670(?)–1754
Alliquippa was a leader of the Seneca in the early part of the 18th century. Although the precise date of her birth is unknown, we do know that she led a band of Seneca in Pennsylvania, in the area of what is now Pittsburgh.
The future president of the United States, George Washington, documented Alliquippa in his journal of 1753; evidently, she had requested to meet Washington and so he took the detour to visit her. “I made her a present of a matchcoat and a bottle of rum, which latter was thought much the better present of the two.”
Alliquippa allied with the British during the French and Indian War; she and her son and other warriors traveled to support General Washington, but didn’t actually fight at the Battle of the Green Meadows where, in 1754, the British were defeated. Following this the Queen felt it was safer to relocate her tribe to Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, where she died in 1754.
The great god of many of the Mesoamerican peoples, also called the Great Plumed Serpent.
