List of illustrations -- Preface: Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Before the coming of the white man: Language -- Tribal name -- Original location -- Kickapoo culture before European contact -- Bibliography -- Chapter II: The Colonial Period, 1640-1783: European attitudes toward colonization and Native Americans -- The early French era, 1640-1700 -- The Mascouten -- The late French era, 1700-1673 -- The British and the Spanish -- Bibliography -- Chapter III: The battle for the Northwest Territory, 1783-1832: Treaties between the United and American Indians -- Tecumseh -- Removal -- Kenekuk -- Bibliography -- Chapter IV: Kickapoo culture in 1800: Economy -- Community -- Kinship -- Clans -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter V: The first years in Kansas, 1832-1870: The death of the prophet -- The reduction of the reservation -- The end of the treaty making -- The Kickapoo in Oklahoma and Mexico -- Removal of Kansas Indians to Oklahoma -- Bibliography -- Chapter VI: Allotments and assimilation, 1870-1934: Compulsory education -- Religious replacement -- Allotment of Indian lands -- Bibliography -- Chapter VII: The road to self-determination, 1934 to the present: The era of Indian reorganization (1928-1945) -- The termination era (1945-1967) -- The era of self-determination (1968-present) -- Bibliography -- Chapter VIII: Indian policy and affairs: the federal-Indian trust relationship, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Indian jurisdiction: Introduction -- Federal-Indian trust relationship -- Bureau of Indian Affairs -- Indian jurisdiction -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter IX: Kansas Kickapoo tribal government / by Donald D. Stull, Jerry Schulz, and Steven V. Lutes -- Conclusion -- Appendices: Appendix A: Algonquian linguistic relationships / by Leiss Vantine -- Appendix B: Ratified treaties with the United States involving or relating to the Kickapoo, 1795-1862 -- Appendix C: Constitution and by-laws of the Kickapoo tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas -- Glossary.