Kickapoo Tribes

Ancestral Homeland: Grat 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

Tribe	Agency	Location of Original Records	Pre-1880 Correspondence M234 RG 75 Rolls 962  Roll Numbers	FHL Film Numbers	Post-1885 Census M595 RG 75 Rolls 693  Roll Numbers	FHL Film Numbers
Kickapoo	Shawnee Agency, 1890-1952	Fort Worth	-		Rolls 210, 392-95	576899
Kickapoo	Ft. Leavenworth Agency, 1824-51	Washington D.C.	Rolls 300-03		-
Kickapoo, Kansas	Great Nemaha,   1851-55	Washington D.C.	Rolls 307-14		-
Kickapoo Kansas	Kickapoo Agency, 1855-76	Washington D.C.	Rolls 371-74		-
Kickapoo, Kansas	Horton (Potawatomi) Agency, 1874-1963	Washington D.C. and Kansas CIty	Rolls 691-95		Rolls 176, 210, 392-95	580771-774
Kickapoo, Mexican	Kickapoo Agency, 1873-75	Washington D.C.	Rolls 373-74		-
Kickapoo, Mexican	Sac and Fox Agency, 1874-80	Washington D.C. and Chicago	Rolls 740-44		-
Kickapoo, Mexican	Shawnee Agency, 1890-1952	Fort Worth	-		-

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

References

Bibliography

• Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives; Record Group 75, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1906 Available online.
• Klein, Barry T., ed. Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian. Nyack, New York: Todd Publications, 2009. 10th ed. WorldCat 317923332; FHL book 970.1 R259e.
• Malinowski, Sharon and Sheets, Anna, eds. The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1998. 4 volumes. Includes: Lists of Federally Recognized Tribes for U.S., Alaska, and Canada – pp. 513-529 Alphabetical Listing of Tribes, with reference to volume and page in this series Map of “Historic Locations of U.S. Native Groups” Map of “Historic Locations of Canadian Native Groups” Map of “Historic Locations of Mexican, Hawaiian and Caribbean Native Groups” Maps of “State and Federally Recognized U.S. Indian Reservations. WorldCat 37475188; FHL book 970.1 G131g.

Vol. 1 -- Northeast, Southeast, Caribbean

Vol. 2 -- Great Basin, Southwest, Middle America

Vol. 3 -- Arctic, Subarctic, Great Plains, Plateau

Vol. 4 -- California, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Islands

• Sturtevant, William C. Handbook of North American Indians. 20 vols., some not yet published. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1978– .
  

Volume 1 -- Not yet published

Volume 2 -- Indians in Contemporary Society (pub. 2008) -- WorldCat 234303751

Volume 3 -- Environment, Origins, and Population (pub. 2006) -- WorldCat 255572371

Volume 4 -- History of Indian-White Relations (pub. 1988) -- WorldCat 19331914; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.4.

Volume 5 -- Arctic (pub. 1984) -- WorldCat 299653808; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.5.

Volume 6 -- Subarctic (pub. 1981) -- WorldCat 247493742; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.6.

Volume 7 -- Northwest Coast (pub. 1990) -- WorldCat 247493311

Volume 8 -- California (pub. 1978) -- WorldCat 13240086; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.8.

Volume 9 -- Southwest (pub. 1979) -- WorldCat 26140053; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.9.

Volume 10 -- Southwest (pub. 1983) -- WorldCat 301504096; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.10.

Volume 11 -- Great Basin (pub. 1986) -- WorldCat 256516416; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.11.

Volume 12 -- Plateau (pub. 1998) -- WorldCat 39401371; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.12.

Volume 13 -- Plains, 2 vols. (pub. 2001) -- WorldCat 48209643

Volume 14 -- Southeast (pub. 2004) -- WorldCat 254277176

Volume 15 -- Northwest (pub. 1978) -- WorldCat 356517503; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.15.

Volume 16 -- Not yet published

Volume 17 -- Languages (pub. 1996) -- WorldCat 43957746

Volume 18 -- Not yet published

Volume 19 -- Not yet published

Volume 20 -- Not yet published

• Swanton John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin #145 Available online.
• Waldman, Carl. Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. New York, New York: Facts on File, 2006. 3rd ed. WorldCat 14718193; FHL book 970.1 W146e 2006.

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