Sauk
Americannoun
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Sauks,
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Sauk
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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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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
How does this trail, the Sauk River ADA Trail, reflect some of those priorities and solutions?
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 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
New expeditions against the Foxes and the Sauks, their allies, broke their resistance, and after 1733 the Fox-Wisconsin trade route to the Iowa and Minnesota country was again open.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
I have been thus explicit, as the disagreement about this treaty led to the final conflict between the Sauks and the whites.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
"It may be my brother is right, but it is a long ways to the lodges of the Sauks, and when they were reached it may be they could tell no more than Deerfoot knows."
From Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis
When Otto was bought of the Sauks, a pretty fair price was paid for him, and it was not to be expected that his purchasers would discount that compensation.
From Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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