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The Sac and Fox Nation (Meskwaki language: Othâkîwaki / Thakiwaki or Sa ki wa ki) is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) Indian peoples. Originally from the Lake Huron and Lake Michigan area, they were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in the 1870s and are predominantly Sauk. [2]
The Sauk or Sac are Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their historical territory was near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Today they have three tribes based in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Their federally recognized tribes are: Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska; Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma
Federally recognized as the "Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians of the Mississippi River in Oklahoma," and commonly known as the Sac and Fox Nation, the Thakiwaki (Sauk/Sac) are an Algonquian people indigenous to the Western Great Lakes region.
From their origins along the Great Lakes to their current home in Oklahoma, the Sac and Fox people have navigated numerous challenges, including forced relocations, treaties that undermined their sovereignty, and the loss of their language and traditions.
Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma is a federally recognized known as the “Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians of the Mississippi River in Oklahoma,” and commonly known as the Sac and Fox Nation. By the 1870s, through a series of dislocations they found themselves in Indian Territory.
Today the three federally recognized Sac and Fox tribes are: Sac and Fox Nation, headquartered in Stroud, Oklahoma; Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, headquartered in Tama, Iowa; and; Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska, headquartered in Reserve, Kansas. [13]
The Sac and Fox Nation was the first to go through self-governance in Indian Health Service, implement a fully functioning tribal court system, and incorporate entities under tribal law.
