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Black Hawk Monument, 1920 ca.

Monument on University Hills in honor of Sauk Chief Black Hawk. View the original source document: WHI 31528

The Sauk Indians moved west into Wisconsin in the 17th century under pressure from the Iroquois, after the arrival of Europeans along the Atlantic seaboard; settled along the lower Wisconsin and Rock Rivers until moving across the Mississippi into Iowa in the 1830's. 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: Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2001).