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who SO far as they or their friends knew were full-hlood Shawnee. 

 Two of these were old women and one an old man, all near or over 

 70 years of age, and two of the three were sister and brother. 



The next tribe visited was the Kickapoo, the main body of which 

 to the number of 211 is settled about McLoud, Oklahoma. They 

 were said by the old Shawnee to be practically the same people with 

 themselves, having" at some time in the past had but one camp-fire, 

 and it was generally believed that they would show some full-bloods 

 of pure strain. This proved to be a vain hope. On close inquiry all 

 sorts of mixtures were discovered, even among the oldest men and 



Fig. 57. — On tlie Kickapoo Reservation. Children of mixed Indian l)lood. 



women of the tribe, but no pure-bloods. Only one single woman 

 of middle age was believed to be possibly a full Kickapoo, but there 

 was no real certainty. Some visiting Kickapoo from Mexico proved 

 no better than the rest, and no hope was given that any pure strain 

 Kickapoo could be found anywhere else. 



Thus two tribes, one of which of considerable importance, may 

 be regarded as lost to science, so far as pure-bloods are concerned. 

 Only a few years ago according to local information there were 

 still a number of old men and women living in l)oth tribes who repre- 

 sented the pure strain. The genuine Indian is rapidly passing away 

 and the work of the anthropologist who endeavors to record the 

 physical type of the various tribes is becoming increasingly difficult. 



