Kickapoo

Kick·a·poo

pl. -·poos· or -·poo· a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in N Illinois and S Wisconsin, now living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and N Mexico
the Algonquian language of this people

Origin of Kickapoo

from Kickapoo kiikaapoa from uncertain or unknown; perhaps

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Kickapoo

noun

pl. Kickapoo, or Kick·a·poos

A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, with small present-day populations in Kansas, Oklahoma, southern Texas, and northern Mexico.
The Algonquian language of the Kickapoo.

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Proper noun

An Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe.

Noun

(plural Kickapoos)

A member of this tribe.

Origin

Contested; an Anishinaabeg source proposes the meaning stand here and there, in reference to the tribe's migratory patterns.

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