nor exception of the club was originally from the mississippi delta the mouth of the arkansas river mississippi river all the way across southern oklahoma was originally as they were discovered there in seventeen sixty seven by the french and at the time the discovery of system made that the quapaw could fill seven to eight thousand more years which put the estimate in a population of about thirty five thousand kuapa the major village was so gaap and today they call themselves so gop and. is french perversion and. in a just kind of fell that way so here and seven hundred sixty seven smallpox plague hits the try and begins to wipe them out and you can read it in the record in the congressional record i've read it is says that the cost of us are no longer the tribe they used to be was do not have the right to occupy the whole southern half of arkansas and we need to take that and give them a reservation more fitting to their size then the army began rounding them out. you know in eight hundred thirty three they made a treaty with the remaining quapaw was to bring noone to where they are today in a arri