Kickapoo

The language spoken by these people.

Proper noun

  1. The language spoken by these people.
  2. A place in the United States:

    1. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Peoria County, Illinois.

    2. A ghost town in Warren Township, Warren County, Indiana.

    3. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Leavenworth County, Kansas.

    4. A town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.

    5. Other townships, listed under Kickapoo Township.

    6. A river in Wisconsin, a tributary of the Wisconsin River.

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish Kikapú, further origins are contested; an Anishinaabeg source proposes giiwigaabaw (“stand here and there”), in reference to the tribe's migratory patterns.

Noun

  1. A member of a particular Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe.

Forms

Kickapoos Kickapoo