Talk:Kickapoo

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 August 2019 and 6 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): WoodpeckerTeeth.

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"Tribes and communities" subheading rationale

I filled in some basic information about the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma. Previously, the main heading was "Reservations"; however, there never was a Kickapoo Reservation of Oklahoma. There was a Kickapoo Reservation in Indian Territory for a decade, but this was broken into individual allotments before Oklahoma Statehood. Today Oklahoma tribes have "tribal jurisdictional areas" instead of reservations, with a single exception. The Osage Nation retained mineral rights to its tribal lands, which today called, "The Underground Reservation." Other than that, there are no Indian reservations in Oklahoma. Cheers, Uyvsdi (talk) 01:53, 22 February 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Kickapoo Indian Reservation of Kansas

I was wondering why the article says the Kansas reservation is 236 square miles, covers portions of three counties and has 6 cities within its boundaries when maps show it is significantly smaller than 236 square miles, has no cities and is located entirely within Brown County. I'd change it but I am not sure what the correct square mileage is and Kickapoo related websites don't mention how big the reservation is. Bhall87^{Four Score}_{and Seven} 05:05, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Suspicious sentence

The last line of the "History" section reads "The Kickapoo people are known for eating lots of corn." This reads like one of those random vandalism sentences. If true, could someone please cite a reference and rephrase the sentence? Otherwise, let's remove it. Canute (talk) 18:41, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. I took it out. Smallchief (talk 18:46, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

Kickapoo language

There was no discussion created for the split proposal, but yes, please feel free to create an article for Kickapoo language as opposed to the current redirect to Fox language. This doesn't seem like the type of action that requires discussion anyway, so I'd say go for it. Yuchitown (talk) 14:30, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 6 June 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 17:05, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

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Kickapoo people → Kickapoo – Consistency with articles for related groups like the Meskwaki, who are well known enough without 'people' appended. Salmoonlight (talk) 22:56, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

• Support The disambiguation page also would have to be moved, but I support this as the clear primary topic. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 03:57, 7 June 2025 (UTC)
• Support since this is the clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC and agree with Zxcvbnm that the disambiguation page would also need to be moved. Yuchitown (talk) 15:46, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
• Support It appears that everything else is both named after and less prominent than the Kickapoo. - Donald Albury 13:18, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Comment

This sentence (and I use the term loosely) is a semantic disaster that is barely parsible, "The Kickapoo are an Algonquian-language people who likely migrated from Northern Ohio, where they were at the time of European contact, to a large territory along the southern Wabash River in the area of modern Terre Haute, Indiana, where they were located at the time of first contact with Europeans in the 1600s." So did the Euros have two first contact/encounters ? Did the Kickapoo have magical spatial ability to be on Ohio AND Indiana at first contact ? ~2026-56260-57 (talk) 23:43, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

I rewrote that section and found a citation for first contact taking place in 1667. A lot of this article is poorly written. Although has multiple people, who are easily able to be in different locations. Yuchitown (talk) 04:12, 21 October 2026 (UTC)