. Bulletin. Ethnology. 684 KICKAPOO [b. a. e. Kickapoo (from Kiivtgapavo, 'he stands about,' or ' he moves about, standing now here, now there'). A tribe of the central Algonquian group, forming a division with the Sauk and Foxes, with whom they have close ethnic and linguistic con- nection. The relation of this division is rather with the Miami, Shawnee, Menom- inee, and Peoria than with the Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Ottawa. History.—The people of this tribe, un- less they are hidden under a name not yet known to be synonymous, first ap- pear in history about 1667-70. At this. time they were
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 684 KICKAPOO [b. a. e. Kickapoo (from Kiivtgapavo, 'he stands about,' or ' he moves about, standing now here, now there'). A tribe of the central Algonquian group, forming a division with the Sauk and Foxes, with whom they have close ethnic and linguistic con- nection. The relation of this division is rather with the Miami, Shawnee, Menom- inee, and Peoria than with the Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Ottawa. History.—The people of this tribe, un- less they are hidden under a name not yet known to be synonymous, first ap- pear in history about 1667-70. At this. time they were found by AUouez near the portage between Fox and Wisconsin rs. Verwyst (Missionary Labors, 1886) sug- gests Alloa, Columbia Wis., as the prolaable locality, about 12 m. s. of the mixed village of the Mascouten, Miami, and Wea. No tradition of their former home or previous wanderings has been recorded; but if the name Outitchakouk mentioned by Druillettes (Jes. Rel. 1658, 21, 1858) refers to the Kickapoo, which seems probable, the first mention of them is carried back a few years, but they were then in the same locality. Le Sueur (1699) mentions, in his voyage up the Mississippi, the river of the Quincapous (Kickapoo), above the mouth of the Wis- consin, which he says was "so called from the name of a nation which formerly dwelt on its ; This probably re- fers to Kickapoo r., Crawford co., Wis., though it empties into the W^isconsin, and not into the Mississippi. Rock r., 111., was for a time denominated the "River of the Kickapoos," but this is much too far s. to agree with the stream mentioned by Le Sueur. A few years later a i)art at of the tribe appears to have moved s. and settled somewhere about Milwaukee r. They entered into the plot of the Foxes in 1712 to burn the fort at Detroit. On the destruction of the Illinois confederacy, about 1765, by the combined forces of the tribes n. of them, the conquered country was parti- tioned amo
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