Editing Kickapoo people (section)

=== Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma ===
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[[File:Kickapoo wickiup.jpg|thumb|A Kickapoo [[Wigwam|wickiup]], [[Sac and Fox Nation|Sac and Fox Agency]], Oklahoma, c. 1880]]
After being expelled from the [[Republic of Texas]], many Kickapoo moved south to [[Mexico]], but the population of two villages settled in [[Indian Territory]]. One village settled within the [[Chickasaw Nation]] and the other within the [[Creek (people)|Muscogee Creek Nation]]. These Kickapoo were granted their own reservation in 1883 and became recognized as the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma.

The reservation was short-lived. In 1893 under the Dawes Act, their communal tribal lands were broken up<ref>{{Cite journal| last = Withington| first = W.R.| title = Kickapoo Titles in Oklahoma| journal = 23 Oklahoma Bar Association Journal 1751| access-date = 2012-07-19| year = 1952| url = http://thorpe.ou.edu/treatises/kickapoo.html
}}</ref> and assigned to separate member households by allotments.  The tribe's government was dismantled by the [[Curtis Act of 1898]], which encouraged assimilation by Native Americans to the majority culture. Tribal members struggled under these conditions.

In the 1930s the federal and state governments encouraged tribes to reorganize their governments. This one formed the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma in 1936, under the [[Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act]].<ref name="ohs">[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/K/KI004.html Annette Kuhlman, "Kickapoo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230001721/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/K/KI004.html |date=2014-12-30 }}, ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009 (accessed 21 February 2009)</ref>

Today the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma is headquartered in [[McLoud, Oklahoma]].  Their tribal jurisdictional area is in [[Oklahoma County, Oklahoma|Oklahoma]], [[Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma|Pottawatomie]], and [[Lincoln County, Oklahoma|Lincoln]] counties. They have 2,719 enrolled tribal members.<ref name=OIA>Oklahoma Indian Affairs. [http://www.ok.gov/oiac/Publications/index.html ''Oklahoma Indian Nations Pocket Pictorial Directory.''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211145522/http://www.ok.gov/oiac/Publications/index.html |date=2009-02-11 }}, 2008:21</ref>