The Quapaw The Quapaw, or Ogahpah, or Ugakhpa, people are so-called because they formerly lived along the west banks of the Mississippi River, south of most other Siouan speaking tribes. The word Ogahpah means downstream people . The Quapaw were given another name by the Algonquin and the French. The name they applied to the Quapaw meant Bow people of the south wind . The term was Arkansas. It ...