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- The Kickapoo Indian Reservation of Kansas is located at 39°40′51″N 95°36′41″W in the northeastern part of the state in parts of three counties: Brown, Jackson, and Atchison.
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The Kickapoo Indian Reservation of Kansas is located at 39°40′51″N 95°36′41″W in the northeastern part of the state in parts of three counties: Brown, Jackson, and Atchison. It has a land area of 612.203 square kilometres (236.373 sq mi) and a resident population of 4,419 as of the 2000 census.
Kickapoo, Algonquian-speaking Indians, related to the Sauk and Fox. When first reported by Europeans in the late 17th century, the Kickapoo lived at the portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, probably in present-day Columbia county, Wisconsin.
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Nov 20, 2012 · Summary and Definition: The fiercely independent Kickapoo tribe originated in the southern Great Lakes Region but were forced to migrate to many of the states to the South and to the West as the Iroquois Confederacy waged war on their people and the European colonists and settlers encroached on their lands.
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Identification. The name "Kickapoo" no longer has any evident meaning to the Kickapoo people other than that is how they refer to themselves. The variety of the other names by which they are known, however, demonstrates the extent of their contacts with other groups, ranging from the Great Lakes region to Mexico. These far-reaching migrations were ...
The Kickapoo may have been seen as early as 1612 by Samuel de Champlain, but continuous contact can be traced only from the mid-seventeenth century. The present existence of three decidedly different bands is representative of the cultural pattern of the tribe since precontact times. For over three centuries the Kickapoo have undergone a series of ...
In aboriginal and early historic times the Kickapoo were seminomadic and this remains true for the conservative Mexican group today. Aboriginally, the Kickapoo summer villages were semipermanent, being associated with nearby agricultural fields. After crops were planted, a few residents, usually elderly, remained to care for them while most of the ...
Subsistence and Commercial Activities.The Kickapoo practiced a pattern of subsistence that combined a preferred hunting and gathering adaptation with less favored horticultural activity. Deer and bison were the major sources of meat, but other game animals, such as bear, elk, and small animals, were also utilized. Wild plants and nuts were suppleme...
Kin Groups and Descent. Kickapoo social organization features thirteen groups that direct the inheritance of Personal names. These nonunilineal, nonexogamous groups may have constituted patrilineal clans in the past. Association is now based on a personal name, or eponym, which is conferred by a namer who is of the same naming group. These eponymou...
Marriage.In earlier times, clans were exogamous and Marriage among relatives was prohibited. An exchange of gifts established the marital ties. There was some polygyny. Usually a year's bride-service was required during which the groom simply lived with the bride's family and contributed to the Economy of the household. Divorce was a very simple ma...
Social Organization.Traditionally, the Kickapoo were a nonstratified society in which both material wealth and cogent authority were largely nonexistent. A religiously conservative people, individual Kickapoo acquire influence and prestige primarily from skills, accomplishments, and religious devotion and knowledge. Although ritual activities are P...
Religious Beliefs. Traditionally, the Kickapoo religion has been an intrinsic part of every facet of life. The religion is animistic and includes a belief in manitous or spirit messengers. The supreme deity is Kisiihiat, who created the world and lives in the sky. Kisiihiat is assisted by a pantheon of manitous, or manitooaki (plural), who are embo...
Callender, Charles, Richard K. Pope, and Susan M. Pope (1978). "Kickapoo." In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15, Northeast, edited by Bruce G. Trigger, 656-667. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. Latorre, Felipe, and Dolores Latorre (1976). The Mexican Kickapoo Indians.Austin: University of Texas Press. Nunley, Mary Christopher (1...
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.
Today, there are three recognized Kickapoo tribes in the United States: Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas, the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas.
The Mexican Kickapoo are the largest group and are located mainly in the states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas. They are known for their traditional beliefs and their adherence to the traditional Kickapoo way of life.
