Saracen, also known as Sarazin, Sarasen and Sarasin, was a French-Quapaw historical figure known to some as an honorary "chief" during the 1800s. A hero to white settlers, Saracen witnessed the removal of his people from traditional land in Arkansas. Because of his mixed-blood, he had no hereditary right to the role of chief, Anglo-Americans came to consider him so due to his deeds. Morris S. Arnold, a historian of colonial Arkansas, notes that while the white neighbors considered him a hero, he "did not fare nearly so well among many of the Quapaws" and he felt that he was a "person in between" cultures.