Kiwigapawa

The Kiwigapawa, or Kickapoo, were an Algonquian-speaking people from the Great Lakes region. French missionaries met them in southern Wisconsin in 1667, and they later moved into Illinois and joined the Wabash Confederacy.

Kickapoo warriors allied with the Shawnee leader Tecumseh and fought at Tippecanoe in 1811. In the 1819 Treaty of Edwardsville they ceded their Illinois lands to the United States in exchange for land in Missouri and goods.