KICKAPOO (" he moves about ")  , the name of a tribe of North American Indians of Algonquian stock . When first met by the French they were in central Wisconsin . They subsequently removed to the Ohio valley . They fought on the English side in the War of Independence and that of 1812 . In 1852 a large band went to Texas and Mexico and gave much trouble to the settlers; but in 1873 the bulk of the tribe was settled on its present reservation in Oklahoma . They number some 800, of whom about a third are still in Mexico .