Sauk
Americannoun
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Wisconsin and Iowa, now living mostly in Oklahoma.
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the dialect of the Fox language spoken by the Sauk.
Example Sentences
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The Sauk County Sheriff's Office said investigators pursued numerous leads in the case but it had gone cold before a comprehensive review of old case files was carried out earlier this year.
From BBC • May 4, 2025
Tucked between snow-capped peaks where the Sauk and Stillaguamish river valleys meet, an hour and a half northeast of Seattle, Darrington was established in the 1890s and grew with the timber industry.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2022
His father was a prominent doctor in Sauk Centre, a town of about 2,800 — read all about it in “Main Street.”
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021
Severe thunderstorms were also reported in Dane, Rock, Columbia, Sauk, Green and Iowa counties in southern Wisconsin.
From Fox News • Aug. 11, 2021
“Sure, but that’s not so far away—like he says San Francisco. My brother’s in the Navy. He’s in San Diego. You got relations in Sauk Centre?”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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