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who SO far as they or their friends knew were full-l)loo(l 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 trilje visited was the Kicka])Oo, the main l)0(lv of which 

 to the numljer of 211 is settled about McLoud. ( )klahi)ma. They 

 were said bv the old Shawnee to be ])ractically the same people with 

 themselves, having at some time in the i a;.t had Init one camp-hre, 

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

 of pure strain. This proved to be a vain hope. ( )n close in(|uirv all 

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



Fig. 57. — On the Kickapoo Reservation. Children of mixed bidian hlood. 



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 certaintv. Some visiting Kickapoo from ^Mexico ])roved 

 no better than the rest, and no hope was given that an\' pure strain 

 Kickapoo could be found anywhere else. 



Thus two triljes. one of \\'hich 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 numljer of old men and women living in both triljes who re])re- 

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

 and the work of the anthropologist who endeavors to record the 

 physical t_\-pe of the various tribes is becoming increasinglv difficult. 



