Abstract
1. The Kickapoo Indians are a Central Algonquian people now living in three main groups. A group in Kansas is reportedly much mixed with Pottawatomie Indians and retains little of the original Kickapoo language and culture. A group in Oklahoma and a group in Nacimiento, Coahuila are much more conservative. These last two groups maintain close relations and exchange personnel to a considerable extent. Kickapoo whistle speech is a substitute for spoken Kickapoo in which the pitch and length of vowels and vowel clusters are represented, while vowel qualities, and for the most part consonants, are not represented. Similar substitutes for spoken languages occur around the world; the most famous examples are probably the drum languages of West Africa and the whistle languages of southern Mexico (Cowan 1948, Herzog 1945, Stern 1957).
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