Nation

Kickapoo

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Region: Great Lakes

In the record

The United States made 13 treaties and agreements that name Kickapoo as a party, from Treaty of Greenville, 1795 to Kickapoo at Kickapoo Agency, Kansas (1862).

C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 27 cessions of land from Kickapoo: about 40 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 19 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana and Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 11), about 19 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Greenville, 1795.

The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Kickapoo: Greenville 1795 and Fort Wayne 1809: encroachment, then cession under pressure.

Today, Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas, Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma and Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas carry this history, as their own pages or research records say.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Treaty or agreementTreaty under documented pressureRemoval treatyExecutive orderShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

Names

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Self-names

KiikaapoiKickapoo (Algonquian)

Land recorded as ceded

Kickapoo About 40 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894

Treaty or agreement14 million
Treaty under documented pressure23 million
Removal treaty2 million
Executive order220 thousand

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

27 cessions. Follow Kickapoo through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

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Native legal and land defense, nationally

Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website

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Connections

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Land recorded in this nation’s name 27, as named in the 1899 record

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Party to 13

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Kickapoo at Kickapoo Agency, Kansas (1862)1862

Present-day governments that carry this history 3

Named in 1

Greenville 1795 and Fort Wayne 1809: encroachment, then cession under pressure1795

Sources

ktik-nsn.gov/history-and-language-resourcereference work
Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) History

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