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Sauk  (sôk) also Sac (sk, sôk)
n. pl. Sauk or Sauks also Sac or Sacs
1.
a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, with a present-day population mainly in Oklahoma. Sauk resistance to removal from their Illinois lands ended in 1832 with the Black Hawk War.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Algonquian language of the Sauk, dialectally related to Fox.

[North American French saki, from Sauk asaakiiha.]


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