Kickapoon.
/ˈkɪkəpuː/ U.S.
a. (A member of) a North American Indian people of the Algonquian family, now resident in reservations in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mexico.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of North-Eastern America > [noun] > Algonquians of prairies
Shawnee1693
Illinois1698
Mascouten1698
Miami1698
Kickapoo1722
Peoria1722
Piankashaw1722
Sauk1722
1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 50 Nations to the West of this Lake, besides the beforemention'd, are Part of the Outogamis, Mascoutens, and Kikpouz.
1835 C. F. Hoffman Winter in West I. 331 The Indians that frequent the neighbourhood of Chicago..are chiefly Pottawattamies and Ottawas, with a few Chippewas.., and a straggling Kickapoo.
b. The language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian > Algonquian languages
Illinois1703
Ojibwa1743
Chippewa1791
Shawnee1792
Miami-Illinois1804
Natick1822
Delaware1826
Munsee1828
Nanticoke1845
Blackfoot1846
Pequot1848
Potawatomi1848
Wiyot1851
Montagnais1852
Passamaquoddy1856
Abenaki1858
Narragansett1866
Lenape1888
Penobscot1891
Powhatan1895
Menominee1896
Micmac1902
Meskwaki1907
Maliseet1912
Cheyenne1933
Kickapoo1933
Massachusett1933
Mohican1933
Sauk1933
Virginia Algonquian1971
Ottawa1982
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. 72 The languages of..the Great Lakes region (Ojibwa,..Kickapoo,..and so on).
Compounds
General attributive.
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1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick i. 19 He had a Kickapoo squaw on one side of him, a Kickapoo brave on the other.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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