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Post by CDuster on Jan 16, 2008 17:23:02 GMT -6
I wonder which side of the fence will the Kickapoo Indian Reservation and Casino be on? They got about 200 acres in a narrow strip along the river.
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Post by rat on Jan 17, 2008 8:38:02 GMT -6
Why can't we put it on the Mexican side..?
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Post by Sílený Jízda on Jan 17, 2008 10:24:04 GMT -6
It'd be easier to drop a live electrical wire every so many miles in the river. They'd get the idea eventually.
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Post by CDuster on Jan 17, 2008 12:35:19 GMT -6
Why can't we put it on the Mexican side..? About 50 years ago the Kickapoo tribe was on the Mexican side and a bunch of years earlier than that was back on the US side. I think it was about 1993 that Prez. Clinton signed a bill giving them tribal status and about 200 acres to call home.
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Post by CDuster on Jan 17, 2008 12:55:13 GMT -6
A few years back the tribal accountant/treasurer notice that some of the money from the Casino was unaccounted for. The tribal Chief called the Casino manager to inform him they were comming to look at the books. They arrived and the door was locked. So the tribal Chief gets ahold of the tribal constable/dogcatcher and they deputize a couple of passer-by's. The four of them arrive at the Casino in an old pick-up truck and procede with amounts to a "Hostile take-over". Armed with crow-bars and a shotgun, they finally get the manager to open up and let them in. Meanwhile the Maverick County Sheriff's deputies had to wait on the other side of the highway untill it was over and then the tribal Chief invited them into the reservation...........................
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Post by DirtyDon on Jan 17, 2008 15:48:48 GMT -6
Okay.. Okay.. we all know how the Chitchabin and Faqaroui (Fakar-wee) Indians got their name... so... did the Kickapoo's really Kick Poo to get their names? Inquiry Minds want to know..
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Post by CDuster on Jan 17, 2008 20:14:03 GMT -6
Not knowing, I can't say............
Besides I don't speak "kick-poo-ese".
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Post by rat on Jan 17, 2008 23:54:28 GMT -6
This article is about the Native American tribe. For other uses, see Kickapoo (disambiguation). Kickapoo Total population 5,000 Regions with significant populations USA (Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona) Mexico (Coahuila) Language(s) Spanish, English, Kickapoo Religion(s) Related ethnic groups other Algonquian peoples The Kickapoos (Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi) are one of the Algonquian speaking Native American tribes. According to the Anishinaabeg, the name "Kickapoo" (Giiwigaabaw in the Anishinaabe language and its Kickapoo cognate Kiwikapawa) means "Stands Here and there" and refers to the tribes migratory patterns. This interpretation is contested and generally believed to be a folk etymology.
There are three recognized Kickapoo tribes remaining in the United States: the Kickapoo of Kansas, the Kickapoo of Oklahoma, and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas. There is another band in the Mexican state of Coahuila. There is also a large group in Arizona. Thus far the former two groups have been politically lumped with the Texas band. Additionally, Kickapoos live in small groups throughout the western United States. Around 3,000 people
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Post by DirtyDon on Jan 18, 2008 5:58:57 GMT -6
I was thinking with the name "Kickapoo" that they might have been the people that invented the high top moccasin.. ewwww
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Post by CDuster on Jan 18, 2008 7:27:39 GMT -6
I guarentee that they have raised "scalping" of gamblers to a fine art....
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