Sauk people

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The Sauk people are a Native American tribe of the Midwest known for their resistance to U.S. expansion, most notably under the leadership of Black Hawk in the early 19th century.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian-speaking people
Native American people
Sauk leader
federally recognized tribe
federally recognized tribe
federally recognized tribe
land cession treaty
war
clanSystem patrilineal clans
continent North America
culturalRegion Eastern Woodlands
currentReservation Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma
surface form: Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska

Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma
Meskwaki (Fox)
surface form: Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
ethnicity Sauk people self-linksurface differs
ethnonymVariant Sac
Sac and Fox
historicalPopulationMovement westward relocation to Iowa
westward relocation to Kansas
westward relocation to Oklahoma
languageFamily Algonquian languages
nativeLanguage Sac and Fox language
Sauk language
notableEvent Black Hawk War
notableLeader Black Hawk
originalRegion Great Lakes region
Illinois
Michigan (most of state)
surface form: Michigan

Midwestern United States
Wisconsin
participant Sauk people self-linksurface differs
United States of America
surface form: United States
relatedEthnicGroup Fox people
Kickapoo people
Meskwaki (Fox)
surface form: Meskwaki

Ojibwe
surface form: Ojibwe people

Potawatomi
surface form: Potawatomi people
religion Christianity
traditional tribal religion
resisted United States expansion
signatory Sauk people self-linksurface differs
startTime 1832
traditionalHousing longhouses
wigwams
traditionalPoliticalOrganization village-based leadership
traditionalSubsistence fishing
hunting
maize agriculture
treatyInvolvement Treaty of St. Louis (1804)
surface form: Treaty of 1804

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Thâkîwaki culturalContext Sauk people
this entity surface form: Sauk culture
Sauk and Fox hasPart Sauk people
Sauk and Fox hasAlternativeName Sauk people
this entity surface form: Sauk and Meskwaki
Sauk and Fox hasAlternativeName Sauk people
this entity surface form: Sac and Meskwaki
Red Earth People relatedTo Sauk people
Red Earth People relatedEthnicGroup Sauk people
subject surface form: Fox people
Business Committee ethnicGroupRepresented Sauk people
subject surface form: Business Committee (Sac and Fox Nation)
Sac language spokenBy Sauk people