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Wickiup-like structures were built by many Native American peoples throughout the Southwestern United States, and terms similar to wickiup are present "among Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, and California", but the source of the word appears to be Foxwîkiyâpi(“house”). Alternatively, it may be a variant of wikiwam(“wigwam”). Either way, its ultimate origin is the Proto-Algonquian root *wi·kiwa·ʔmi(“house”). Doublet of wigwam.
They say his real name is Cimarron Seven, of the Choctaw Indian family of Sevens; he was raised in a tepee; a wickiup had been his bedroom, a blanket his robe.
1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:
At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste.
