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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 language and members of the Kickapoo tribe were featured in the movie The Only Good Indian (2009), directed by Greg Wilmott and starring Wes Studi. This was a fictionalized account of Native American children forced to attend an Indian boarding school , where they were forced to speak English and give up their cultural practices.
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
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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
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.
Most speakers are elderly or middle-aged, making it highly endangered.The tribal school at the Meskwaki Settlement in Iowa incorporates bilingual education for children. [6] [7] In 2011, the Meskwaki Sewing Project was created, to bring mothers and girls together "with elder women in the Meskwaki Senior Center sewing traditional clothing and learning the Meskwaki language."
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.