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.
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In a statement, Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister said Ms Backeberg's disappearance "was by her own choice and not the result of any criminal activity or foul play".
From BBC ● May 4, 2025
She spent several days a week searching before she finally found him Nov. 13 near Sauk Centre.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
On July 14, a search was conducted on land owned by the state Department of Natural Resources near Sauk City, where additional human remains – later identified as Krista's – were located by investigators.
From Fox News ● Jan. 21, 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
“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
Within a decade, a small group of Sauks would cede their remaining territory in Illinois.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2014
The Sauks who wandered away from their fellows, taking Otto along as their prisoner, met the Pawnees, who, as the reader well knows, were a long ways from home.
From Footprints in the Forest by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
I have seen a great many Sauks, but it was hard work to tell them apart when they were a little ways off.
From Footprints in the Forest by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
And two days later, at a place about 20 miles above their camp, on the 15th, they reached "the crossing place for the Sauks, Ayauways, and Sioux, in their excursions against the Osage."
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives
"He was brought there in the last moon; the Sauks found two pale faces in the woods."
From Camp-fire and Wigwam by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
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