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Kickapoo Seek Help as Texas Band Faces Poverty and Isolation
The Kickapoo, a band of over 600 denied citizenship in both the United States and Mexico, live near Eagle Pass on borrowed land and face poverty despite historic ties across Wisconsin Illinois Texas and Mexico. Spokeswoman Nakai Breen and Odessa volunteer Nakai Breen and the Tucker family mobilize aid, soliciting clothing food medicine and ceremonial deer hides while urging Congress to recognize the tribe and grant land for homes and farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mexico
Eagle Pass
Nacimiento
Angie Debo
Nakai Breen
Bracketville
Washington D. C
LaRue Tucker
Tucker
Terri Conner
Monahans
Tuckers
Breens
Kickapoo
Texas Band of Kickapoo
Conner
Murray
William S. Cohen
U. S. Senate
Select Committee On
Dirksen
Senate
Washington, D. C
Mother Earth
Odessa
CBS