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Sac and Fox Bark House

Members of the Mesquaki nation are posed outside of a Sac and Fox bark house. View the original source document: WHI 28188

The Meskwaki People are of Algonquian origin and were called "Fox Indians" by white writers. The Meskwaki came into Wisconsin ca. 1650 from the east under pressure from the Iroquois. Throughout the first half of the 18th century they attempted to control key locations on the principal fur trade routes in Wisconsin, and were consequently at war with the French and their Indian allies for decades. After 1750 they were closely allied with the Sauk, with whom they relocated west of the Mississippi about 1830.Today, there are three federally recognized tribes of Sauk and Fox people: the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa/Meskwaki Nation, the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma and the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska.

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Source: Wyman, Mark. The Wisconsin Frontier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).