Sauk: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Sac

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Painting of a group of Sauk and Fox people in traditional clothing and feathered headdresses, some standing and some seated, with hills and open landscape in the background.

Tah-Col-O-Quoit (Rising Cloud), a Sauk Warrior, lithograph by J.T. Brown, c. 1842.

Map showing the distribution of Indigenous peoples of the Northeast Woodlands region in North America, with tribal names such as Algonquin, Ojibwa (Chippewa), Iroquois, Shawnee, and Powhatan labeled across present-day northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Major lakes and rivers are marked, and a red boundary outlines the general region inhabited by these groups.

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Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiah, painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1837.

Black Hawk

Sauk and Fox leader

Keokuk, Sauk chief; painting by J.O. Lewis done at the signing of the Treaty of Prairie du Chien, 1825.

Keokuk

Sauk leader

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Sol Tax

American anthropologist

Tecumseh. Battle of the Thames, Ontario, Canada, and the death of Tecumseh. Col. Richard M. Johnson with the Kentucky volunteers on left battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Native American Shawnee chief. North American indian. (See Notes)

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