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<p>The Sauk natives people historically lived along the St. Lawrence seaway in Canada. Under pressure from the expanding Iroquois confederacy, the group eventually migrated to the Saginaw Bay region of Michigan and Wisconsin. The Sauks were part , like many other people of the region, spoke an Algonquian nativeslanguage. The Algonquian natives consisted "Sauk" refers to the group's exonym, "Ozaagii" -- used by neighboring Ottawa and Ojibwe to mean "those at the outlet" of various tribes that spoke similar languagesthe Saginaw. This name was transliterated by the French, and eventually, the English, as "Sauk" or "Sac". The group's autonym, "Oθaakiiwaki" means "people of the yellow earth."-- a reference to the soils in the nation's newfound home in Michigan.</p> <p>The Sauks were originally allies of the French but fell from favor when they helped Native Americans who were hostile to the French. The Sauks Sauk were divided about which side to support during the French and Indian War. During the American Revolution the Sauks Sauk sided with the British against the Americans.The Sauk were originally allies of the French but fell from favor when they helped other American Indian peoples -- namely, the Fox -- who were hostile to the French. The Sauk then allied with the Fox, and travelled with them westwards, to Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas. In 1832, a mixed group of Sauk and Fox united under powerful Sauk leader Black Hawk, and lead Black Hawk's War, to fight further U.S. seizure of Sauk and Fox territories. </p> <p>The Sauks Sauk never were a prominent tribe in Ohio. They gave up all claims to lands in Ohio with the signing of the Treaty of Fort Harmar (1789). In 1804, the Sauk natives relinquished all of their lands east of the Mississippi River.</p> <br />
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