Kickapoo Tribes

Various Spellings: Kickapoo, Kikapo, Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma

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, granted a reservation along the North Canadian River; their descandants became the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma.

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

Brief History

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.

Records
Agency

Allotment


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

Correspondence and Census

Treaties


 * 1795 With the Wyandot
 * 1803 with the Delaware
 * 1803 with the Eel River, Etc.,
 * 1809
 * 1815
 * 1816 with the Wea
 * 1819
 * 1819
 * 1820 Kickapoo of the Vermilion
 * 1832
 * 1854
 * 1862

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