Kickapoo
1 Americannoun
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a member of an Algonquian tribe of North American Indians that originally lived in the upper Midwest and now reside in Coahuila, Mexico, and in Kansas and Oklahoma.
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the dialect of the Fox language spoken by the Kickapoo.
noun
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In 1978, 600 residents retreated from the Kickapoo River to avoid its rising flood waters.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2023
A message left Thursday with the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma also was not immediately returned.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
A sliver of the Kickapoo shimmered in the valley below, surrounded by the still-budding hills of the Driftless, a billowing plaid of yellow and green.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2021
Largemouth bass are fair on plastic worms, spinners, topwater baits and jigs closest to the Kickapoo.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 16, 2019
That evening at Sandy June’s— talking to him while we listened to a Kickapoo blues band—inspired me to become a musician.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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