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Babe Shkit, Kickapoo chief and delegate from Indian Territory, c. 1900 The Kickapoo are an Algonquian-language people who likely migrated to or developed as a people in a large territory along the southern Wabash River in the area of modern Terre Haute, Indiana, where they were located at the time of first contact with Europeans in the 1600s.
Kickapoo Center, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community; Kickapoo, Illinois; Kickapoo Downtown Airport, a city-owned public-use airport located in Wichita County, Texas, United States; Kickapoo High School: Kickapoo High School (Springfield, Missouri) Kickapoo High School (Viola, Wisconsin) Camp Kickapoo, a former Boy Scout Camp near Jackson ...
Wah-Pah-Ho-Ko (born c. 1862) was a Kickapoo tribal leader who served as the last hereditary chief of the Kickapoo tribe, leading her people during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as they faced internal divisions and U.S. government pressure to accept land allotments.
Emma Kickapoo Williams Ellis (June 1880 – 1942) was a Native American woman of the Mexican Kickapoo, known as a model for several artists. She took an allotment in Indian Territory , was educated at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School , in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and became a baker.
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The hacienda occupied by the Mexican Kickapoo is located about 32 km northeast of the city of Múzquiz, and is called by them El Nacimiento de la Tribu Kikapú (The Birthplace of the Kickapoo Tribe). Their property contains around 17,300 acres of semiarid land sourced with water from the Río Sabinas .
Kickapoo Site 1 is a census-designated place (CDP) in Brown County, Kansas, United States, on the Kickapoo Indian Reservation. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population was 110. [ 2 ]
"Kickapoo" comes from their word "Kiwigapawa," which roughly translates into "he moves from here to there." The tribe is part of the central Algonquian group and has close ethnic and linguistic connections with the Sac and Fox. The Kickapoo were first recorded in history in about 1667–70 at the confluence of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. [8]