The Kickapoo Indians resisted outsiders’ each try and settle their lands--until ultimately they have been compelled to take away west of the Mississippi River to the plains of the Southwest. There they persisted to salary conflict and acted as investors for border captives and items. In 1873 they reluctantly settled on a reservation in Indian Territory. There, corrupt politicians, land swindlers, gamblers, and whiskey peddlers preyed at the tribe. no longer till the 20 th century did the Kickapoos acquired simply remedy by the hands of the us government.
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