Sacs

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Sacs are a Native American people of the Eastern Woodlands, closely associated with the Meskwaki (Fox) tribe and historically located around the Great Lakes region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Sacs canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people of North America ⓘ
Native American people ⓘ
alsoClassifiedAs Central Algonquian ⓘ
surface form: Central Algonquian people
closelyAssociatedWith Fox people ⓘ
Meskwaki (Fox) ⓘ
surface form: Meskwaki
colonialEraContactWith British colonists ⓘ
French colonists ⓘ
United States government ⓘ
culturallyRelatedTo Kickapoo ⓘ
Meskwaki (Fox) ⓘ
surface form: Meskwaki

Ojibwe ⓘ
Potawatomi ⓘ
currentPopulationCountry United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
ethnonym Sauk ⓘ
forcedRemovalTo Iowa ⓘ
Kansas ⓘ
Oklahoma ⓘ
historicalAllianceWith Meskwaki (Fox) ⓘ
historicalMigrationDirection westward from Great Lakes ⓘ
involvedInConflict Black Hawk War ⓘ
Fox Wars ⓘ
languageFamily Algonquian languages ⓘ
locatedInHistoric Eastern Woodlands ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Woodlands cultural area

Great Lakes region ⓘ
notableLeader Black Hawk ⓘ
originalTerritory Great Lakes shoreline areas ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ
Michigan ⓘ
Wisconsin ⓘ
presentDayFederallyRecognizedTribe Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma ⓘ
surface form: Sac and Fox Nation (Oklahoma)

Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska ⓘ
Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa ⓘ
regionOfCulturalArea Northeast Woodlands ⓘ
surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
religion traditional Algonquian spirituality ⓘ
spoke Sauk language ⓘ
traditionalCrafts basketry ⓘ
beadwork ⓘ
quillwork ⓘ
traditionalEconomy fur trade participation ⓘ
traditionalHousing longhouses ⓘ
wigwams ⓘ
traditionalPoliticalOrganization village-based bands ⓘ
traditionalSubsistence fishing ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
maize agriculture ⓘ
treatyHistoryIncludes Treaty of St. Louis (1804) ⓘ
surface form: Treaty of 1804 (St. Louis)
usedWritingSystem Latin alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Latin alphabet (for later written Sauk)

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sauk → alsoKnownAs → Sacs ⓘ