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
Tribal Headquarters[edit | edit source]
Kickapoo of Kansas Kickapoo Tribal Office
1107 Goldfinch Road
Horton, Kansas 66439 Phone: 1-877-864-2746
Web site: http://www.ktik-nsn.gov/contact.htm
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
P.O. Box 7
McLoud, Oklahoma 74851 Phone: 1-405-964-7053
Official Website:
Kickapoo Tribe of Wisconsin
Kickapoo Tribe in Texas
History[edit | edit source]
Currently, there are groups of Kickapoo Indians in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Brief Timeline[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
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.
Superintendency
Reservations[edit | edit source]
Kickapoo Reservation - Kansas
Kickapoo Reservation - Oklahoma
Agencies[edit | edit source]
Fort Leavenworth Agency 1824-51
Great Nemaha Agency 1851-55
Kickapoo Agency 1855-76 (Mexican Kickapoo 1874-80)
Horton (Pottawatomie) Agency 1874-80
Sac and Fox Agency 1874-80
Records[edit | edit source]
Allotment[edit | edit source]
- 1862 Kansas Kickapoo Land Allotments http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com
- 1890 Kansas Kickapoo Land Allotments http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com
Correspondence and Census[edit | edit source]
| 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 | FHL Film: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 | FHL Films: 580771-580774 | |
| 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 | - | - | - | - |
Treaties[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Horton (Potawatomi) Agency, M595,births and deaths 1918-1935, FHL Film: 580774
Important Web Sites[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
Bibliography[edit | edit source]
- 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.