Kickapoo people

Kickapoo

Ron McKinney, Kickapoo-Potawatomi, DOCUMERICA project photo, Doniphan County, Kansas, 1974
Total population
Roughly 5,000 (3,000 enrolled members)
Regions with significant populations
United States  (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas) Mexico  (Coahuila, Sonora, Durango)
Languages
English, Spanish, Kickapoo
Religion
Native American Church; Christianity (many Catholic, some Protestant); tribal religious practices
Related ethnic groups
Sauk, Fox, other Algonquian peoples

The Kickapoo People (Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American and Indigenous Mexican tribe. Anishinaabeg say the name "Kickapoo" (Giiwigaabaw in the Anishinaabe language and its Kickapoo cognate Kiwikapawa) means "Stands here and there." This may have referred to the tribe often moving around. The name can also mean "wanderer".

There are three federally 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 Oklahoma and Texas bands are politically linked with each other. The Kickapoo in Kansas came from them being moved from southern Missouri in 1832 as a land exchange from their reservation there. Around 3,000 people are tribal members.

Other websites

• Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas, official website
• Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, official website
• Kickapoo language, alphabet and pronunciation
• Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, official website
• Matthew R. Garrett, Kickapoo Foreign Policy, 1650–1830, PhD dissertation, University of Nebraska, 2006, at Digital Commons
• Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas and Kickapoo Reservation, Texas Archived 2020-02-11 at Archive.today United States Census Bureau
• "First Nations: Kickapoo" Archived 2018-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, Lee Sultzman Tolatsga]