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THE KICKAPOO TRIBE When the white men came to America the Kickapoo tribe was forced to move. At that time they were mostly living in Michigan and Ohio, but there were of course many other Kickapoos that were spread all over the country. No one liked the white men so they avoided them. The Kickapoo’s did many trades with the white men. These trades were land trades. In 1811 there were huge tensions between the United States and the regional tribes and that led to a war called Tecumseh’s war. Many Kickapoo warriors participated in the war, because the Kickapoo was one of Tecumseh’s closest allies. When the war ended many rules were changed and Kickapoo were the first tribe to leave the state Indiana. The American leaders wanted to remove the tribes and send them to another place. Kickapoo agreed to move to Kansas if they could get yearly subsidies. They had another land trade in 1819, and then some of the Kickapoo tribes that originally lived Michigan and Ohio had to move to Missouri. Not everybody moved to the reserve in Missouri, in fact it was lesser than half of the Kickapoo’s that settled down in Missouri. Many of these travelled further and some ended up in Oklahoma, Texas and some on the Mexican border. The Kickapoo Indians that were living in Texas were forced to move by the government many times, but later they had to come back to the US to work as migrant workers.

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