September
12
/ 2018
Not long after Europeans came to North America, Native American tribes from the East began moving west toward the Great Lakes. Around the mid-17th century, a number of the more westerly tribes or nations, including the Kickapoo Nation, were forced west and south because of incursions first by other native tribes who were pushed west by Europeans, and then by Europeans themselves. Some Kickapoo people ended up far to the south in Mexico, and their descendants still live there. The Kickapoo Nation, an Algonquian people, had originally been in southern Michigan and northern Ohio. They farmed beans, squash and corn and hunted and gathered. Those three crops were symbiotic: bean vines grew on the corn stalks, and the low-growing squash
