Sauk
[ sawk ]
noun,plural Sauks, (especially collectively) Sauk.
a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Wisconsin and Iowa, now living mostly in Oklahoma.
the dialect of the Fox language spoken by the Sauk.
- Also Sac [sak, sawk] /sæk, sɔk/ .
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How to use Sauk in a sentence
The villages of the Sauks and Iowas, are within two miles of each other.
It seems more probable that the horses have been taken either by the Sauks or Ioways.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XIV | Edwin JamesIn the afternoon, another war-party of eleven Omawhaws, who had also been in pursuit of the same Sauks, arrived.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XIV | Edwin JamesThere were twenty riflemen on the boat who then began firing, and the Sauks responded.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 | Charles H. SylvesterHe was brought there in the last moon; the Sauks found two pale faces in the woods.
Camp-fire and Wigwam | Edward Sylvester Ellis
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