The Quapaw Indian Agency was a territory that included parts of the present day Oklahoma Counties of Ottawa and Delaware. Established in the late 1830s as part of the Cherokee Nation, the agency was disbanded in 1890 by the Oklahoma Organic Act and attached to an Indian Territory. Another Indian reserve, the Miami Indian Agency based in Miami, Oklahoma was disbanded at the same time. The area that became known as the Quapaw Agency Lands contained 220,000 acres and was located in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma where that state adjoins Missouri and Kansas. This area was settled prior to 1874 by 24 Indian groups. These range from full Indian tribes down to the remnants of several larger Indian groups whose main body settled elsewhere.
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