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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.
The Kickapoo kinship system is based on patrilineal clans, [9] by which inheritance and property are passed through the paternal line. Children are considered born into the father's clan. Fourteen of the original 17 clans are remaining: Man, Berry, Thunder, Buffalo #1, Tree, Black Bear, Eagle, Brown Bear, Buffalo #2, Fire, Water, Raccoon, and ...
Pages in category "Kickapoo" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Vestana Masquat (Kickapoo name: Pam-o-thah-ah-quah) [1] was born on January 31, 1901 [2] on the Kickapoo Reservation west of Horton, Kansas to Eugene (Kickapoo name: No-kah-waht) Masquat [1] (July, 1876–1918) and Ella [née Herrick] Dupuis [3] (Sac & Fox name: Wah pah qua o ke mah a quah) (October, [4] 1869 – December, 1963) [5] The family legend is that Vestana was a great-great-great ...
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.
Kickapoo River in Wisconsin; Lake Kickapoo in Archer County, Texas; Kickapoo Cavern State Park, a park in Texas; USS Kickapoo, the name of two ships in the U.S. Navy "Kickapoo", a song by Tenacious D on the soundtrack album The Pick of Destiny; Kickapoo Joy Juice, a carbonated soft drink by Monarch Beverage Company distributed in South-East Asia
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. [5]
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.