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Sauk   /sɔk/   Listen
Sauk

noun
1.
A member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay.  Synonym: Sac.






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"Sauk" Quotes from Famous Books



... die, was again a candidate. The platform was made and submitted to him. He approved of it. It indorsed the Compromises. But again there was an old soldier in the field, in the person of General Scott. He had fought the British in 1812. He had made treaties with the Sauk, Fox, Winnebago, and Sioux tribes after the Black Hawk War. Yes, he had made a brilliant record in the Mexican War. In mental stature he was up to the knees of Webster, and no more. But Webster had no imaginative appeal. He could only pull twenty-nine ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters



Words linked to "Sauk" :   Black Hawk, Keokuk, Makataimeshekiakiak, Algonquin, Algonquian



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