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Kickapoo
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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Kick·a·poo / ˈkikəˌpoō/ • n. (pl. same or -poos) 1. a member of an American Indian people formerly living in Wisconsin, and now in Kansas, Oklahoma, and north central Mexico.
2. the Algonquian language of this people.
• adj. of or relating to this people or their language.
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Kickapoo Children Breathe Life Into Rich Tribal Language
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/12/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...that could help stave off the death of another famous Indian language, a tribal school is teaching Kickapoo to the Kickapoo. At the Kickapoo Nation School, a one-story white structure in the sleepy farm town of Powhattan, the 93 students...
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Kickapoo Tribe defends itself from investor lawsuit
Newspaper article from: THE JOURNAL RECORD; 4/18/2002; ; 700+ words
; Officials with the Kickapoo Tribe said the complaints of a group of investors who funded construction of the Kickapoo Casino are without merit and will not pass muster in court. "The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma will prevail in litigation...
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Uphill struggle:Kickapoo school fights negative perception
Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press; 5/2/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...acknowledges many residents view the Kickapoo Nation School - where he's worked...differences, Arnold admits, between the Kickapoo Nation School and nearby public...Northeast Kansas. For one, the Kickapoo Nation School - located about 40...
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Investors file suit against Kickapoo Tribe
Newspaper article from: THE JOURNAL RECORD; 4/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...investors who funded construction of the Kickapoo Casino allege that the tribe has exploited...the Nevada-based First American Kickapoo Operations LLC, announced Friday that they were suing the Kickapoo Tribe to recover their lost investments...
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Company files suit against Kickapoo Tribe
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 4/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...investors who funded construction of the Kickapoo Casino allege that the tribe has exploited...the Nevada-based First American Kickapoo Operations LLC, announced Friday that they were suing the Kickapoo Tribe to recover their lost investments...
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Photos offer window into Kickapoo reservation life
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 10/12/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Custer spent nearly two weeks at the Kickapoo Indian reservation in northeast Kansas. His interest in the Kansas Kickapoo lay in the fact that they were the...History in downtown Bloomington. The Kickapoo, one of the more traditional, culturally...
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Ousted Kickapoo officers file motion to set aside orders from Nation's District Court
Newspaper article from: Indian Country Today (Lakota Times); 7/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Lakota Times) 07-05-2000 Ousted Kickapoo officers file motion to set aside orders...Pierpoint TODAY STAFF HORTON, Kan. - Ousted Kickapoo officials have filed a motion to set...injunctions with the District Court of the Kickapoo Nation. Steve Cadue and Thelma Simon...
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ELDER BRINGS PRIDE TO KICKAPOO
News Wire article from: United Press International; 6/14/2001; 700+ words
; ...06-14-2001 Elder brings pride to Kickapoo LE ROY, Ill., Jun 14, 2001 (United...Illinois and the forced relocation of the Kickapoo in the 1800s from her grandparents and...35, her grandson and a full-blood Kickapoo who learned the tribe's language from...
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Museum open Kickapoo exhibit
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 8/17/2008; ; 623 words
; BLOOMINGTON - Eighteen members of the Kickapoo reservation in northeastern Kansas visited...Unconquerable: Photos and History of the Kickapoo Indians." The exhibit features photos taken of Kickapoo Indians in Kansas in 1906 by German photographer...
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Every year thousands come to LeRoy, historic home of the Kickapoo, for the Inter-Tribal Pow Wow Return to the Grand Village
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 5/30/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...today served as home to thousands of Kickapoo Indians when the first European explorers...preserved as the Grand Village of the Kickapoo Park, will be the site of the seventh...member. "I never studied about the Kickapoo in school. Now, we have high school...
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Kickapoo
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
KICKAPOO KICKAPOO. The exact origins of the Kickapoo re-main uncertain, though tribal tradition tells of their separating from the Shawnee after a dispute over a bear's foot. Equally unknown is the meaning of "kiikaapoa," the name Kickapoo...
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Potawatomi Prophet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...would be driven from the land. Among the Kickapoo, a prophet named Kanakuk had arisen...before removal to the West, it led to the Kickapoo remaining in the homeland for more than...introduced the prophet's teachings among the Kickapoo, and Potawatomi people then living in...
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Kanakuk (d. 1852)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...American visionary, arose among the Kickapoo in the years immediately after the War...of the Mississippi River. In 1819 the Kickapoo signed the Treaty of Edwardsville by...but did not prevent the removal of the Kickapoo to the West, and they eventually settled...
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Illinois
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the celebrated Ottawa chief Pontiac by a Kaskaskia provoked the Lake tribes (the Ojibwa, the Ottawa, the Potawatami, the Kickapoo, and the Sac and Fox) to vengeance. They began a war of extermination, which in a few years diminished the Illinois to...
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Kikapu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Kikapu ETHNONYMS: Chikapu, Kickapoo Orientation Identification. The Mexican Kikapu originated in the regional frontier that divided the United States from Canada...
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