Sauk (sôk) also Sac (s k, 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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| Noun | 1. |  Sauk - a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green BayAlgonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast |
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