Kickapoo people
（重定向自Kickapoo Indian Reservation）
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![Babe Shkit, Kickapoo chief and delegate from Indian Territory, ca. 1900](/Images/godic/202501/22/lossy-page1-220px-Kickapoo,_Babe_Shkit,_Chief_and_Delegate_from_Oklahoma_-_NARA_-_523854.tif3856.jpg")
![Kickapoo people building a Winter House in the town of Nacimiento Coahuila, México, 2008](/Images/godic/202501/22/Grupo_Kikapú_en_Coahuila_México3857.jpg")
![A Kickapoo wickiup, Sac and Fox Agency, Oklahoma, ca. 1880.](/Images/godic/202501/22/Kickapoo_wickiup3857.jpg")
The Kickapoo people (Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi) are an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe. Anishinaabeg say the name "Kickapoo" (Giiwigaabaw in the Anishinaabe language and its Kickapoo cognate Kiwikapawa) means "Stands here and there," which may have referred to the tribe's migratory patterns. The name can also mean "wanderer". This interpretation is contested and generally believed to be a folk etymology.