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  • noun Plural form of Kickapoo.

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Examples

  • The Kickapoos were a lowly people who had never been good at war.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • The Kickapoos were a lowly people who had never been good at war.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • The Kickapoos were a lowly people who had never been good at war.

    Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

  • The Kickapoos were a lowly people who had never been good at war.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • On the east, a comparable trading network evolved among the Kickapoos, Delawares, and Shawnees in the Indian country, offering the Comanches the same opportunities.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • Between 1900 and 1907 it was adopted by the Poncas, Kickapoos, and Kansas, and subsequently spread throughout the plains and into the Great Basin and deserts of the Southwest.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • That year they got a reprieve: Mackenzie, who was ready to mount a final campaign against them, was sent instead to the Mexican borderlands to stop the cross-border raiding of Texas settlements by Kickapoos and Apaches.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • By the end of July, the cornfields and villages of all the Cherokees, Delawares, Shawnees, Caddoans, Kickapoos, Creeks, Muskogees, and Seminoles in east Texas were burned to the ground.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • George Catlin and Greasy Lake happened on the yellow buffalo before they met the Kickapoos who were its keepers.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • The first shock came when the two of them ran into a small band of Kickapoos who informed them that they themselves, not the Comanches, had found the white buffalo when it was just a calf.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

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