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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.
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.
Keannekeuk (c. 1790–1852), also known as the "Kickapoo Prophet", was a Kickapoo medicine man and spiritual leader of the Vermilion band of the Kickapoo nation. He lived in East Central Illinois much of his life along the Vermilion River. [1] One source translates his name as "the drunkard's son."
The Kickapoo were "bitterly opposed" to allotment and fought the process until 1894. [31] [32] 283 Kickapoo received eighty-acre plots leaving 184,133 surplus acres for non-Indian settlement. [33] In 1895, after the Kickapoo finally consented to allotment, the final Oklahoma Land Run occurred on 23 May 1895.
The Mexican Kickapoo (Spanish: Tribu Kikapú) are a binational Indigenous people, some of whom live both in Mexico and in the United States. In Mexico, they were granted land at Hacienda del Nacimiento near the town of Múzquiz in the state of Coahuila in 1850. [5] A few small groups of Kickapoo also live in the states of Sonora and Durango.
The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority has been relentless in its expansion over the past 20 years. The 21-mile Kickapoo Turnpike was part of the $1.1 billion Driving Forward expansion that began in 2015.
Tribal enterprises include the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino Hotel, which provides Class II gaming, the Lucky Eagle Convenience Store, Kickapoo Empire, which is an 8A business, a pecan farm, ranches located in both the U.S. and Mexico, a gas station in Múzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico, with PEMEX, and other businesses in Maverick County. Tribal members ...
The Kickapoo Agent George G. Wren reported destitution and near starvation in 1933 and 1934, alleviated only by the tribe's ability to help each other and work projects offered by the Indian Service. [27] Location of the Kickapoo Reservation and the Sac and Fox Nation Trust Land joint-use area in Kansas