Quapah Convergences with the Common Winnebago-Chiwere Clan System
| Quapah (Hodge) | Quapah (Dorsey) | Quapah (Fletcher & La Flesche) | Common Winnebago-Chiwere | Comments |
| Thunders (Wakanta) | Wakánʇă | Wakóⁿta | Thunderbird | Thunderbirds are called Wakąja in Hocąk. |
| Eagle (Xidh) | Qid¢ | Eagle | ||
| Hawk or Owl | ||||
| Crane (Petang) | Pétaⁿ | Pétoⁿ | Among the Hocągara, Crane has owls for brothers. | |
| Small Bird (Wajingka) | Wajíñʞa | Wažíⁿga | Pigeon | The Missouria have a Small Bird Clan that is cognate to the Pigeon Clan. |
| Black Bear (Wasa) | Wasá | Wása | Black Bear | |
| Grizzly Bear (Mantu) | Maⁿtú | Moⁿcú | The Hocągara have a Blue Bear Subclan, Blue Bear being the chief of the grizzlies (mąco). | |
| Panther (Tangdhangtanka) | Taⁿd¢áⁿ (táñʞa) | |||
| Dog (Cangke) | Cañʞé | Wolf | ||
| Buffalo (Te) | Te | Te | Buffalo | |
| Reddish Yellow Buffalo (Tuxe) | Tuqé | |||
| Elk (Anpan) | Óⁿphŭⁿ | Óⁿpoⁿ | Elk | |
| Deer (Nanpanta) | Náⁿpaⁿta | Náⁿpaⁿta | The Hocągara have a Deer Clan. | |
| Beaver (Jawa) | Jawé | Beaver | The Hocągara had a Beaver Subclan of the Waterspirit Clan. | |
| Turtle (Ke) | Ke | Ke | The Hocągara had either a Turtle Subclan (of the Waterspirit Clan?) or a Turtle band. | |
| Snake (Wesa) | Wés‘ă | Snake | ||
| Fish (Hu) | Hu | Hu | The Hocągara have a Fish Clan. | |
| Upper World (Maxe) | The Hocągara have an Upper Moiety. | |||
| Sun (Mi) | Mí | Mí | ||
| Star (Mikax) | Mikáq‘e | Miháke | ||
| Ancestral (Hangka) | Háñʞa | |||
| Nikiata | Untranslated from the Quapah. | |||
| Tizhu [Gentle Sky] | Untranslated from the Quapah. Presumably cognate to Osage Tsi-zhu, "Gentle Sky." |
Cf. | Winnebago-Chiwere Clan System | Quapah Clan System | Osage and Hocąk Clans Compared | Omaha and Hocąk Clans Compared |
Sources
Frederick Webb Hodge, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico: N-Z, Volume 30 of Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, vol 30 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910) s.v. "Quapaw," 2:335b-336a.
James Owen Dorsey, "The Social Organization of the Siouan Tribes," The Journal of American Folk-Lore, 4, #14 (Jul. - Sep., 1891) and #15 (Oct. - Dec., 1891): 257-266, 331-342 [332]. "The following names of Kwapa gentes were obtained chiefly from Alphonsus Valliere, a full Kwapa, who assisted the author when in Washington, from December, 1890, to March, 1891."
Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, The Omaha Tribe, 2 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press: 1992 [1911]) 1:68.