Kennekuk
Life
From 1833 until his death in 1852, he led a community of followers, whose beliefs centered on non-violence, passive resistance to resettlement, abstinence from alcohol, and meditation.[7] He favored moderate, nonviolent accommodation and coexistence with American westward expansion, and a settled agricultural life. These views caused him and his followers to suffer derision and alienation from some of the other Kickapoo bands. His tribal community's religious outlook embodied a type of Christian evangelism in some respects and a group of Potawatomi converts joined his following over time. He died on the reservation in Kansas in 1852.
Reverend William H. Honnell, who visited a few years after Kennekuk's death, reported that Kennekuk went back and forth between Christian teachings and "heathenism."[8]
Some Kickapoo descendants still follow the tenets of his preaching.[9]
References
- ^ Herring, Joseph B., Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet. University of Kansas Press, 1988, pp. 47–48.
- ^ Milo Custer, "Kannekuk or Keeanakuk: The Kickapoo Prophet," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, (1908-1984) Vol. 11, No. 1, Apr., 1918, pp. 48-56.
- ^ Herring, Joseph B. "Kenekuk, the Kickapoo Prophet: Acculturation without Assimilation." American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 3, 1985, pp. 295–307.
- ^ Lesley, Elena (2019) "Cultural Impairment and the Genocidal Potential of Intoxicants: Alcohol use in Colonial North America," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, Vol. 13: Issue 1: 88-97.
- ^ Unrau, William, "White Man's Wicked Water: the Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802-1892." The Annals of Iowa, 56 (1997), 286-288.
- ^ Unrau, William E. White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country, 1802–1892. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1996.
- ^ Student Britannica[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Reminiscences of Reverend William H. Honnell". Kansas Memory. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
- ISBN 0806112646
External links
- "Portrait of Kennekuk, "The Kickapoo Prophet"". Kansas Memory. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
- "Kennekuk's prayer-stick illustration". Kansas Memory. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
- "George Remsburg Papers". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved December 12, 2012. Contains a rather detailed study of Keannakuk (Kennekuk)