Kickapoo people are an Algonquian-speaking Native American and Indigenous Mexican tribe, originating in the region south of the Great Lakes.
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13 Facts About Kickapoo people
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The Kickapoo people had to contend with a changing cast of Europeans; the British defeated the French in the Seven Years' War and took over nominal rule of former French territory east of the Mississippi River after 1763.
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Many Kickapoo people warriors participated in the Battle of Tippecanoe and the subsequent War of 1812 on the side of the British, hoping to expel the white American settlers from the region.
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The Kickapoo people were not eager to move, partly as their assigned tract in Missouri was made of rugged hills and already occupied by the Osage, who were their hereditary enemies.
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Kickapoo people led his followers during the Indian Removal in the 1830s to their current tribal lands in Kansas.
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The Kickapoo people were among the first tribes to leave Indiana under this program.
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Kickapoo people alphabet was developed by Paul Voorhis in 1974 and was revised in 1981.
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Three federally recognized Kickapoo people communities are in the United States in Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.
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The Mexican Kickapoo people are closely tied to the Texas and Oklahoma communities.
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Kickapoo people wanted to focus on keeping the identity of the Kickapoo people, because of all the relocations they had done.
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Once the Kickapoo people got relocated to Kansas they resisted the ideas of Protestantism and Catholicism and started focusing more on farming, so they could provide food for the rest of the tribe.
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