Kispoko (also spelled Kiscopocoke, Kispokotha, Spitotha) is the name of one of the five divisions (or septs) of the
Shawnee, a
Native American people. The Kispoko were the smallest of the five septs or divisions during the 18th century. They lived among the
Creek as early as 1650, having been driven from their
Ohio country homeland by the
Iroquois Confederacy during the
Beaver Wars. They returned about 1759. The other four divisions were the
Chalahgawtha, Mekoche, Pekowi, and
Hathawekela. (Each of the five division names have been spelled in a great variety of ways.) Together these divisions formed the loose
confederacy that was the Shawnee tribe. The septs tended to serve different functions for the overall confederacy.