Kickapoo Tribes

Ancestral Homeland: Great Lakes area; closely related to the Sac and Meskwaki (Fox); all three tribes lived in Wisconsin

Band: Vermilion

Federally recognized

History
Currently, there are groups of Kickapoo Indians in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Brief Timeline
1600's: Jesuit priest Claude Jean Allouez visited the tribe between the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers

1790-94: Little Turtles' War; tribes stands against non-Indians

1763: The tribe joined Pontiac in his rebellion.

1809-11: Tecumseh's Rebellion, the tribe joined Tecumseh

1832: Black Hawk War

1832: The tribe removed to Missouri

1839: Part of tribe moved to Texas and Mexico

1860's: The tribe many migrated to the Illinois River in Illinois

1873: part of the tribe move to Indian Territoy, granded a reservation along the North Canadian River; their descandants became the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma.

1873: Colonel Ranald Mackenzie ledd troop into Mexioc and destored the main village at Nacimiento on the Remolino River. Survivors lead back to Indian Territory - Oklahoma

Records
Agency

Correspondence and Census

Vital Records


 * Horton (Potawatomi) Agency, M595, births and deaths 1918-1935 FHL Film: 580774

Important Web Sites

 * Constitution of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas.
 * Constitution and By-Laws of the Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas, Approved February 26, 1937
 * Constitution and By-Laws of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, Ratified September 18, 1937.
 * Kickapoo Tribe Wikipedia