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2 unusual facts about Kickapoo people


Kickapoo people

The Kickapoo language and members of the Kickapoo tribe were featured in the movie The Only Good Indian, a fictionalized story of Native American children forced to attend a boarding school.

Ninian Edwards

The declaration of war and the Battle of Fort Dearborn in 1812 convinced Edwards that Potawatomi and Kickapoo in the territory were preparing to launch a major attack on the southern settlements.


Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard

On several trips throughout Illinois, he became the adopted son of Chief Waba of the Kickapoo and married Watseka, niece of Chief Tamin of the Kankakee Potawatomi.

Indian removals in Indiana

Other minor tribes, mostly Algonquian speaking, including the Wea, Lenape, Piankeshaw, Wyandott, and the Kickapoo, were scattered across the state.


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