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  2. Sauk people - Wikipedia

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    The Sauk, an Algonquian languages people, are believed to have developed as a people along the St. Lawrence River, which is now northern New York.The precise time is unknown, but around the time of the year 1600, they were driven from the area of the St. Lawrence River.

  3. Sac and Fox Nation - Wikipedia

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    The Sauk and Foxes signed a number of treaties with the United States Government in the nineteenth century, often signed with other tribal nations and involved relocation. The Treaty of St. Louis from November 3, 1804, which gave away large portions of the land of the Sauk and Foxes to the United States.

  4. Sauk-Suiattle - Wikipedia

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    'fetching-water people') [3] is a term used for those among the Sauk who travelled to the Suiattle River during the summer, and is not an ethnic identifier. However, due to the closeness of the two groups, they are commonly known together as the "Sauk-Suiattle." [4] The name for the Sauk-Suiattle in Lushootseed is saʔqʷəbixʷ-suyaƛ̕bixʷ.

  5. Black Hawk (Sauk leader) - Wikipedia

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    Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (Sauk: Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa) (c. 1767 – October 3, 1838), was a Sauk leader and warrior who lived in what is now the Midwestern United States. Although he had inherited an important historic sacred bundle from his father, he was not a hereditary civil chief.

  6. Sioux - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the boundaries of the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux land cession area (Royce Area 289) With the creation of Minnesota Territory by the U.S. in 1849, the Eastern Dakota (Sisseton, Wahpeton, Mdewakanton, and Wahpekute) people were pressured to cede more of their land.

  7. Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa - Wikipedia

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    The Fox call themselves Meskwaki and because they are the dominant people in this tribe, it is also simply called the Meskwaki Nation (Meskwaki: Meshkwahkîhaki, meaning: "People of the red earth"). The Sauk people call themselves Êshkwîha (literally: "Fox people") or Yochikwîka , both with the meaning "Northern Sauk".

  8. Battle of Wisconsin Heights - Wikipedia

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    However, Sauk Black Hawk and others disputed the treaty, claiming that the full tribal councils had not been consulted, nor did those representing the tribes have authorization to cede lands. [1] Angered by the loss of his birthplace, between 1830 and 1831 Black Hawk led a number of incursions across the Mississippi River , but was persuaded to ...

  9. Keokuk (Sauk leader) - Wikipedia

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    Keokuk was born around 1780 on the Rock River in what soon became Illinois Territory to a Sauk warrior of the Fox clan and his wife of mixed lineage. [4] [5] He lived in a village near what became Peoria, Illinois on the Illinois River, and although not of the traditional ruling elite, was elected to the tribal council as a young man.