People / group

Sauk

Also known as Sac people

The Sauk, or Sac, are an Algonquian-speaking people of the western Great Lakes, closely allied with the Meskwaki. Pushed west from Michigan and Wisconsin, they settled along the upper Mississippi, where a disputed land cession of 1804 led to the Black Hawk War of 1832. Their descendants belong to the Sac and Fox nations of Oklahoma and of Kansas and Nebraska.

Sauk — Image: Karl Bodmer · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 1 state history

Illinois Confederation

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sauk. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sauk
MLA: “Sauk.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sauk. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Sauk.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sauk.
Harvard: The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Sauk’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sauk (Accessed: ).

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