Kispoko

The Kispoko were one of the five divisions of the Shawnee, an Algonquian-speaking people of the Northeastern Woodlands, and were reckoned the smallest of the five in the eighteenth century. During the Beaver Wars they were driven from their Ohio homeland by the Iroquois Confederacy and were living among the Creek in the Upper South as early as 1650, before returning to Ohio around 1759.

The division supplied the tribe's hereditary war chiefs; Chiksika, elder brother of Tecumseh, was a Kispoko war chief. Kispoko families shared the Shawnee village of Peckuwe with the Pekowi division until it was destroyed after the Battle of Piqua in 1780.

Most of the sept was removed west of the Mississippi in the early nineteenth century, and its descendants formed part of the Absentee-Shawnee in Indian Territory.