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Kickapoo Language

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The Kickapoo language is spoken in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, and Coahuila, Mexico. Kickapoo is a member of the Central Algonquian Branch of the Algic language family, and is most closely related to the Meskwaki language. More distantly related languages include Shawnee, Myaamia and Potawatomi.

Selected Language Information

Voorhis, Paul H. 1968. Kickapoo Grammar. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Voorhis, Paul H. 1974. Introduction to the Kickapoo Language, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Voorhis, Paul H. 1988. Kickapoo Vocabulary. Algonquian and Iroquoian linguistics. Vol. 6.

Sample Archival Materials in the Native American Languages Collection

Ayres, Gwyneth (author), Linda Harjo (author), Mary Linn (author), Darlene Littledear (author), Terri Longhorn (author), Vickie Mason (author), Margaret Mauldin (author), Waliya Sdiwi (author), Rosie Smith (author), Marie Strickland (author), Tim Thompson (author), Sherrye Wade (author), Pauline Wahpepah (author), Betty Whitson (author), Laura Widney (author). 1993. ONALDI 93 Poems. Akira and Kimiko Yamamato Collection. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Department of Native American Languages. Media: ephemera. Catalog Number: AKY-024.

Coleman, Ned R. (author), Linda K. Jones (author). (n.d.). Towards a Discourse Perspective of Modes and Tenses in Kickapoo Narratives. Akira and Kimiko Yamamato Collection. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Department of Native American Languages. Media: manuscript. Catalog Number: AKY-165.

Allen, Howard (author). (n.d.). Assorted Kickapoo Poetry. Akira and Kimiko Yamamato Collection. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Department of Native American Languages. Media: ephemera. Catalog Number: AKY-166.

Folarin, Antonia (author). 1985. Lesson Plans: Kickapoo Language Instruction. Akira and Kimiko Yamamoto Collection. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Department of Native American Languages. Media: manuscript. Access: open. Catalog Number: AKY-515.

Michelson, Truman (author). 1917. Notes on Algonquian Languages. General Field Collection. Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Department of Native American Languages. Media: manuscript. Catalog Number: GEN-417.

Links

Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma

Kickapoo Lessons

Catalogue of Endangered Languages

Glottolog

OLAC

Ethnologue