Sauk

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The Sauk are a Native American people originally from the Great Lakes region, known for their resistance to U.S. expansion and their prominent leader Black Hawk.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Sauk canonical 37
Menominee 1
Piankashaw 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people of North America
Native American people
alsoKnownAs Sac
Sacs
colonialContactWith American settlers
British America
surface form: British colonists

French colonists
conflictWith United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalPractice clan system
council governance
culturalRegion Northeast Woodlands
surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
currentPopulationCenter Iowa
Kansas
Oklahoma
ethnicallyRelatedTo Fox
Meskwaki (Fox)
surface form: Meskwaki
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
forcedRemoval 19th century
historicalLeader Black Hawk
Keokuk
Quashquame
historicalResistanceTo U.S. expansion
involvedIn War of 1812
language Sauk language
languageFamily Algonquian languages
nativeTo Great Lakes region
Illinois
Iowa
Michigan
Wisconsin
notableEvent Black Hawk War
notableFigure Black Hawk
recognizedTribe Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma
surface form: Sac and Fox Nation (Oklahoma)

Sac and Fox
surface form: Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska

Sauk people
surface form: Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa
religion Christianity
traditional tribal religion
signedTreaty Treaty of St. Louis (1804)
surface form: Treaty of 1804
traditionalHousing longhouses
wigwams
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
maize agriculture
traditionalTerritoryFeature Mississippi River
Rock River
treatyWith United States government

Referenced by (41)

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

Black Hawk ethnicity Sauk
Upper Peninsula of Michigan indigenousPeoples Sauk
this entity surface form: Menominee
Meskwaki (Fox) relatedEthnicGroup Sauk
subject surface form: Meskwaki
Asshewaqua ethnicity Sauk
Treaty of Greenville signatory Sauk
this entity surface form: Piankashaw
Sac alternativeNameOf Sauk
Sac participant Sauk
subject surface form: Black Hawk War
Sac ethnicity Sauk
subject surface form: Black Hawk
Sac and Fox refersTo Sauk
Fox closelyAlliedWith Sauk
Henry Atkinson – United States forces hasEthnicGroupAsOpponent Sauk
subject surface form: Henry Atkinson
Fox Wars (1712–1733) indigenousGroupInvolved Sauk
this entity surface form: Sauk (Sac)
Rock Falls, Illinois region Sauk
this entity surface form: Sauk Valley
Keokuk ethnicGroup Sauk
Quashquame ethnicGroup Sauk
Sacs ethnonym Sauk
Sac people alsoKnownAs Sauk
Thâkîwaki endonymFor Sauk