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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.
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.
The couple has three children. Early life and education Usha Bala Chilukuri [ 2 ] [ a ] was born on January 6, 1986 [ 5 ] in a suburb of San Diego County, California , [ 6 ] to Lakshmi (née Yechuri) [ 7 ] and Radhakrishna "Krish" Chilukuri [ 8 ] [ 9 ] , both Telugu Indian immigrants [ 10 ] [ 11 ] who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s [ 12 ...
Vestana Cadue was the first woman elected to serve as chair of the Kickapoo Council. [9] She began her term in April, 1953, [ 10 ] and was reelected for a second term to begin in 1955. [ 9 ] Her third term was contested by her brother, Robert Masquat, and though he won, the election results were voided because less than 30% of eligible voters ...
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.
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 .
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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]