Kickapoo
Sign in to saveAlso known as Kiikaapoa, Kiikaapoi, Kickapoo Indians, Kickapoo people, kickapito people
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Kickapoo
- Ethnic group.image
- 250px
- Ethnic group.caption
- Ron McKinney (Mahuk), Kickapoo-Potawatomi,Documerica project photo,Doniphan County, Kansas, 1974
- Ethnic group.population
- Roughly 5,000 (3,000 enrolled members)
- Ethnic group.regions
- United States
- Ethnic group.languages
- English, Spanish, Kickapoo
- Ethnic group.religions
- Native American Church; Christianity (many Catholic, some Protestant); tribal religious practices
- Ethnic group.related
- Sauk, Meskwaki, other Algonquian peoples
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 5000
- Image
- Kickapoo, Babe Shkit, Chief and Delegate from Oklahoma - NARA - 523854.jpg
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- Kickapoo
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-1800s
- 1800s to present
- Language
- Tribes and communities
- Kickapoo Indian Reservation of Kansas
- Kickapoo Indian Reservation of Texas
- Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
- See also
The Kickapoo people (; Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi; ) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe and Indigenous people in Mexico, originating in the region south of the Great Lakes. There are three federally recognized Kickapoo tribes in the United States: the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas. The Oklahoma and Texas bands are politically associated with each other. The Kickapoo in Kansas came from a relocation from southern Missouri in 1832 as a land exchange from their reserve there. Around 3,000 people are enrolled tribal members.
Another band, the Tribu Kikapú, resides in Múzquiz Municipality in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, ending up there after disputes between leaders of rival bands in the tribe caused a schism between followers of the "Kickapoo Prophet" Kennekuk and Prairie band Chief Kishko. Smaller bands live in Sonora, to the west, and Durango, to the southwest.
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