KICKAPOO INDIANS IN OHIO

THEY LIVED IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO BY LAKE ERIE. IN 1640'S THEY WERE ATTACKED FROM THE OTTAWA AND IROQUOIS SPEAKING NEUTRALS. IN 1658 THEY WERE FORCED WEST INTO WEST INTO WISCONSIN. AFTER 1700 THEY MOVED TO NORTHERN ILLINOIS. AFTER WARS WITH THE ANGLOS THEY MOVED INTO THE OHIO VALLEY AND SOME RELOCATED TO MISSOURI. THEY SIGNED TREATIES IN 1819 CEDING THEIR LAND EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND RELOCATED TO MISSOURI. THERE ARE THREE FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES - KICKAPOO OF KANSAS, KICKAPOO OF OKLAHOMA, AND KICKAPOO TRADITIONAL TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA. BY 1660 4000 KICKAPOO REMAINED - SOME WERE REFUGEES IN WISCONSIN. IN 1852 600 WERE STILL IN KANSAS, SOME IN MEXICO AND OTHERS IN OKLAHOMA. THEIR LANGUAGE IS SIMILAR TO SHAWNEE AND CULTURALLY THE TWO WERE SIMILAR TO THE SOUTHERN CULTURAL TRAITS. THEIR VILLAGES HAD MID SIZED LONGHOUSES DURING SUMMMER. A COMMUNAL BUFFALO HUNT IN THE FALL THEY GREW CORN, BEANS, AND SQUASH. THEY WERE NOTED FOR THEIR STUBBORNNESS. THEY DID NOT LISTEN TO JESUITS. THEY DISTRUSTED EUROPEANS. FRENCH TRADERS RARELY WERE ALLOWED TO VISIT THEIR VILLAGES. THEIR TRADITIONAL DREAM RELIGION HAS THE MOST ADHERENTS, THEN KANUKUK AND THE NATIVE AMERICAN CHURCH. THEY WERE VERY DISPLACED. IN 1891 THE KICKAPOO IN OKLAHOMA WERE ASSIGNED 22,000 ACRES NEAR MC LOUD, OKLAHOMA ACRES NEAR MC LOUD. THE GOVERNMENT GAVE THEM INDIVIDUAL ALLOTMENTS. ONE HALF OF OKLAHOMA KICKAPOO WERE ASSIGNED INDIVIDUAL ALLOTMENTS. ONE HALF OF THE KICKAPOO WENT TO MEXICO AND HALF WENT TO OKLAHOMA. THEY HAVE NOT RESERVATION IN OKLAHOMA, BUT 6200 ACRES WITH 17 ACRES OWNED BY THE TRIBE. ONLY 19,000 ACRES WERE GIVEN TO THE KANSAS KICKAPOO. THEY CONTROL 3900 ACRES. TOTAL SKA.ORG