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Kickapoo

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(kĭk'Әpō), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ) and who in the late 17th cent. occupied SW Wisconsin. They were closely related to the Sac and Fox . The culture of the Kickapoo was essentially that of the Eastern Woodlands area, but they also hunted buffalo, one of the few traits that the Kickapoo adopted from their neighbors in the Plains area. After the allied Kickapoo, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Sac and Fox tribes massacred (c.1769) the Illinois , they partitioned the Illinois territory. The Kickapoo, numbering about 3,000, moved south to central Illinois. Later they split in two; the Vermilion group settled on the Vermilion River, a tributary of the Wabash, and the Prairie group on the Sangamon River. The Kickapoo, a power in the region, sided with the British in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812, when they aided the Shawnee chief Tecumseh. By the Treaty…
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From Cassell's Peoples, Nations and Cultures Full text Article The Americas
A Native North American nation originally of Ohio, now three separate groups in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. They were once part of the SHAWNEE , and their name means ‘he moves about’. Seasonally mobile within their territory as farmers, hunters, gatherers and fishers, they spoke an Algonquian…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(kĭk'Әpō), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ) and who in the late 17th cent. occupied SW Wisconsin. They were closely related to the Sac and Fox . The culture of the Kickapoo was…
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Current Locations: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas; Mexico Language Family: Algonquian The Kickapoo are closely related to the Mesquakie (Fox). The Kickapoo occupied a substantial territory along the Wabash River in Indiana when the French arrived. They subsequently formed a central part of Tecumseh’s…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Member of an American Indian people who inhabited the Great Lakes region until the mid-17th century when they were forced west by the Iroquois . An Algonquian -speaking people, they were once part of the Shawnee group. Although primarily farmers, they were one of the first American Indian groups to…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
North American Indian people related to the Sauk and Fox and living in the U.S. states of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas and in northern Mexico. The name is a variant of the Algonquin word kiwegapawa , meaning “he stands about” or “he moves about.” Their language is of the Algonquian family. Before…
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From Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink
A trademark name for a beverage produced by John Healy and Charles Bigelow, of New Haven, Connecticut. It was promoted as a tonic for neuralgia and “impure blood” and derived its name from a band of Native Americans from various tribes whom the two hucksters called “full-blooded Kickapoo Indians” …
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From The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language
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From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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