Sauk First Nation
The
Sauks or
Sacs are a group of
Native Americans whose occupied territory included parts of what is now
Illinois,
Iowa and
Wisconsin. Their refusal under their chief
Black Hawk in
1832 to accept the continued theft of native lands led to their reduction in importance at the military hands of General Edmund Gaines in the
Blackhawk War.
There is a town in the southwest of Wisconsin called Prairie du Sac, located in the Sauk County.