Sauk
noun pl. Sauks or Sauk
- a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in the area of modern Green Bay, Wisconsin, and later on reservations in Oklahoma and Kansas
- the Algonquian language of this people
See Sauk in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(sôk) also Sac (săk, sôk)
noun pl. Sauk Sauk or
Sauks also
Sac or
Sacs 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.
- The Algonquian language of the Sauk, dialectally related to Fox.
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