Kickapoo Tribes

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Various Spellings: Kickapoo, Kikapo, Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma

Ancestral Homeland: Great Lakes area (Illinois); 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
 * 1819: Leave Illinois and Indian and move to Missouri
 * 1832: Black Hawk War
 * 1832: The tribe removed to Missouri
 * 1839: Part of tribe moved to Texas and Mexico
 * 1860's: The tribe migrated to the Illinois River in Illinois
 * 1873: part of the tribe move to Indian Territoy, granted a reservation along the North Canadian River; their descendants became the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma.

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Frederick Webb Hodge, in his Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, gave a more complete history of the Kickapoo tribe, with estimations of the population of the tribe at various time periods. Additional details are given in John Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America.

Allotment

 * 1862 Kansas Kickapoo Land Allotments http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com
 * 1890 Kansas Kickapoo Land Allotments http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com

Treaties

 * 1795 August 3, with the Wyandot
 * 1803 June 7, at Fort Wayne, with the Delaware
 * 1803 August 7, at Vincennes, with the Eel River, Etc.,
 * 1809 December 9, at Vincennes,
 * 1815 September 2, at Portae des Sioux
 * 1816 June 4, at Fort Harrison, with the Wea
 * 1819 June 30, at Edwardsville, Illinois
 * 1819 August 30, at Fort Harrison
 * 1820 July 19, at St. Louis
 * 1820 September 5, Kickapoo of the Vermillion
 * 1832 October 24, at Castor Hill
 * 1854 May 18, at Washington
 * 1862 June 28, at Kickapoo Agency

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