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The Quad Cities is a region of five cities (originally Tri-Cities, ... Saukenuk was the principal village of the Sauk tribe and birthplace of its 19th-century war ...
The Sauk or Sac are Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their historical territory was near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Today they have three tribes based in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Their federally recognized tribes are: Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma
Part of the tribe established new villages in Iowa and in Missouri nearer their winter hunting grounds. The campaign of 1832 led to a complete victory for the U.S. Army and the state of Illinois. Many of Black Hawk's followers were killed and the Quad Cities region was completely opened to settlement.
[2]: p.13 Black Hawk's father Pyesa was the tribal medicine man of the Sauk people. [3] Little is known about Black Hawk's youth. He was said to be a descendant of Nanamakee (Thunder), a Sauk chief who, according to tradition, met an early French explorer, possibly Samuel de Champlain.
Many Sauk and Fox found return to their homes more difficult, and while some returned safely, others were held in custody by the army. Prisoners, some taken at the Battle of Bad Axe, and others taken by U.S.-aligned Native American tribes in the following weeks, were taken to Fort Armstrong at modern Rock Island, Illinois. [23]
The museum interprets the story of the Sauk and Meskwaki tribes that lived in the area in a village called the Saukenuk. [3] It was considered one of the largest Native American villages in North America .
The Sauk considered the island sacred: This [island] was the best one on the Mississippi, and had long been the resort of our young people during the summer. It was our garden, like the white people have near their big villages, which supplied us with strawberries, blackberries, gooseberries, plums, apples and nuts of different kinds.
Treaty of Sauk and Fox (Confederated Tribes) in Washington, DC, October 21, 1837; Treaty of Sauk and Fox Agency, Iowa Territory, October 11, 1842 where the Sauk and Foxes cede all lands West of the Mississippi River, to which they have any claim. Treaty of Sauk and Fox of Missouri, Washington, DC, May 18, 1854