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Sauk|sɔːk|
Also Sac; 8 Sacky, Sax.
[ad. Canad. F. Saki, f. Ojibwa osākī; cf. Sauk asākīwa person of the outlet.]
An Algonquian Indian people inhabiting parts of the central United States, formerly in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, now in Oklahoma and Kansas; a member of this people. Also, the language of this people, a dialect of Fox. Also attrib. or as adj.
1722D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 48 The Nations who dwell on this River, are Outogamis,..Sacky, and the Poutouatamis. 1762[see Menominee]. 1789Deb. Congress U.S. 25 May (1834) 41 The treaties..with the sachems and warriors of the Wyandot, Delaware,..and Sac nations,..appear to have been negotiated [etc.]. 1810Z. M. Pike Acct. Expeditions Sources Mississippi App. i. 20 The Sauks and Reynards are planting corn. 1810in Deb. Congress U.S. (1853) 12th Congress 1 Sess., App. 1858 A considerable number of Sacs went..to see the British superintendent. 1835[see Menominee]. 1836J. Hall Statistics of West 53 On this prairie is a small village of the Sauk and Fox Indians. 1877L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. vi. 169 The Shawnees had a practice, common also to the Miamis and Sauks and Foxes, of naming children into the gens of the father or of the mother or any other gens. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 832/1 The Sacs and Foxes, now one tribe, located in Indian Territory, were originally separate, living near Green Bay, Wisconsin... A few still remain in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. 1933L. Bloomfield Language iv. 72 The Algonquian family..includes the languages of..the Great Lakes region (..Menomini, Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, [etc.]). 1946G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 187 Treaties were thus made with the following tribes: Delawares, Kansas, Sauk and Foxes of the Mississippi, Sauk and Foxes of the Missouri, [etc.]. 1972J. Mosedale Football i. 3 The famous Sac and Fox warrior, Chief Blackhawk. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 921/1 In the 1970s there were about 1,000 Sauk. 1978Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XV. 654 Organized as the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians of Oklahoma under the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936, the Sauk had an elected chief and business committee. |