The Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas is a federally recognized tribe in the United States. The Kickapoo were once one of many Great Lakes Tribes that occupied the western portion of the woodland area in southern Michigan near Lake Erie until the Iroquois forced them out during the Iroquois War of 1641-1701.
The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma is one of three federally recognized Kickapoo tribes in the United States. There is a fourth in Mexico.
The Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas were originally an offshoot of the Shawnee tribe ("Kickapoo" is thought to be a corruption of a Shawnee word for "wanderers,") but their language and customs have more in common with the neighboring Fox and Sauk.
The Mashantucket Pequot Indian Tribe is an Eastern Woodland people with traditional homelands in what is now known as Southeastern Connecticut. As the first native people within the borders of the continental United States to suffer an attempted genocide by Puritan Colonists in 1637, they have one of America's oldest Indian reservations, established in 1666.
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, or "wild rice people," are a federally recognized Indian tribe who have lived in Wisconsin for millenia. They are the oldest Native American community that still lives there.
It was 1953 when a small group of American Indians held the first American Indian Center Powwow in Chicago. They filled the streets near Kinzie and LaSalle, dancing and singing and pounding drums. At the time, the U.S. government was stripping more than 100 tribes of their “official” status, forcing many American Indians to leave tribal lands throughout the Midwest for cities such as Chicago. The powwow – sponsored by the American Indian Center of Chicago, which opened that year…