Saukn.
/sɔːk/ 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 attributive or as adj.
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Shawnee1693
Illinois1698
Mascouten1698
Miami1698
Kickapoo1722
Peoria1722
Piankashaw1722
Sauk1722
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Algonquian > Algonquian languages
Illinois1703
Ojibwa1743
Chippewa1791
Shawnee1792
Miami-Illinois1804
Natick1822
Delaware1826
Munsee1828
Nanticoke1845
Blackfoot1846
Pequot1848
Potawatomi1848
Wiyot1851
Montagnais1852
Passamaquoddy1856
Abenaki1858
Narragansett1866
Lenape1888
Penobscot1891
Powhatan1895
Menominee1896
Micmac1902
Meskwaki1907
Maliseet1912
Cheyenne1933
Kickapoo1933
Massachusett1933
Mohican1933
Sauk1933
Virginia Algonquian1971
Ottawa1982
1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 48 The Nations who dwell on this River, are Outogamis,..Sacky, and the Poutouatamis.
1762 T. Hutchins Jrnl. 26 June in Michigan Hist. Mag. (1926) 10 369 I delivered the same Message to the Meynomeneys that I had done to the Sax and Reynard Nations.
1789 Deb. Congr. 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.].
1810 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi App. i. 20 The Sauks and Reynards are planting corn.
1810 in Deb. Congr. U.S. (1853) 12th Congress 1 Sess., App. 1858 A considerable number of Sacs went..to see the British superintendent.
1835 C. F. Hoffman Winter in West II. 3 The Mè-nó-mò-nè, or wild-rice-eaters, is a broken band that served with effect against the Sauks and Foxes in the Indian difficulties of 1832.
1836 J. Hall Statistics of West 53 On this prairie is a small village of the Sauk and Fox Indians.
1877 L. 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.
1881 Encycl. 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.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Algonquian family..includes the languages of..the Great Lakes region (..Menomini, Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, [etc.]).
1946 G. 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.].
1972 J. Mosedale Football i. 3 The famous Sac and Fox warrior, Chief Blackhawk.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 921/1 In the 1970s there were about 1,000 Sauk.
1978 Handbk. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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