Nation / Tribe
Kickapoo Tribe
The Kickapoo (Kiikaapoi) are an Algonquian-speaking people whose original territory lay in the Great Lakes region of present-day Wisconsin and Illinois. Known as fierce warriors and skilled diplomats, the Kickapoo maintained their independence through strategic alliances and military resistance to American expansion. The Kickapoo signed treaties with the United States in the early 19th century that ceded portions of their Illinois homeland. Notably resistant to removal, different Kickapoo bands migrated to Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico, where communities persist today.
Portrait: George Catlin, "Ah-tón-we-tuck, Cock Turkey, Repeating His Prayer," 1831. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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