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  Fox (tribe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fox tribe of Native Americans are an Algonquian language-speaking group that are now merged with the allied Sac tribe as the Sac and Fox Nation.
The Second Fox War of 1728 found the remaining 1500 Fox reduced to 500 who found shelter with the Sac and brought French animosity to that tribe.
Fox who had successfully fled west of the Mississippi River were known as the "lost people" by the Dakota.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fox_(Native_American)   (779 words)

  
 Sac and Fox v. Sac and Fox, 220 U.S. 481, 31 S.Ct. 473, 55 L.Ed. 552 (1911)
Sac and Fox, 220 U.S. 481, 31 S.Ct. 473, 55 L.Ed.
Sac and Fox, 220 U.S. 481, 31 S.Ct. 473, 55 L.Ed. 552 (1911)
Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississippi in Iowa, Appts.,
www.utulsa.edu /law/classes/rice/USSCT_Cases/Sac_Fox_Iowa_v_Sac_Fox_Ok_220_481.htm   (2256 words)

  
 Sauk and Fox
The Fox retaliated by besieging the Winnebago fort on the Fox River, but the attack was abandoned after the arrival of a relief force of French and Menominee warriors from Green Bay.
The Fox accepted this as inevitable, but on the east side of the Mississippi, the Winnebago were roused by the arguments of the Winnebago Prophet (White Cloud) and their war chief Red Bird and decided to fight the encroachment.
Besides the Fox and Sauk, this was attended by the Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Shawnee, and Wyandot.
www.tolatsga.org /sf.html   (16589 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Sac and Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
SAC AND FOX [Sac and Fox] closely related Native Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
Sac and Fox culture was of the Eastern Woodlands area with some Plains-area traits (see under Natives, North American).
The Fox were fierce warriors and constantly waged war with the Ojibwa.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/sacn1f1ox.asp   (651 words)

  
 Sac/Sauk/Saki/Osawkee/Saque/Sawkee
In 1804 the Sac and Fox had agreed, for an annuity of $1,000, to cede to the United States their lands east of the Mississippi River.
Politically, the Fox and Sauk had more central organization than with other Algonquin which probably was a reflection of the many wars they had fought.
One important difference between the Fox and Sauk and neighboring tribes was they usually maintained large villages during the winter.
www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/sac.htm   (965 words)

  
 OkieLegacy - Sac and Fox of Lincoln County, Oklahoma
The Sac and Fox Indians had signed a treaty with the United States in 1867 and agreed to purchase 750,000 square miles of land in portions of what is now Payne, Lincoln and Pottawatomie counties.
One band of the Sac and Fox, lead by heriditary Chief Mo-Ko-Ho-Ko, protested the move to Indian Territory and for years after the treaty was signed (and even after his death in 1880) many of his band kept returning to their old homes in Kansas and Iowa.
The Sac and Fox Indian Boarding School, begun by Quaker missionaries in 1872, was located on the eastern edge of the reserve land and many Sac and Fox children were forced to attend.
okielegacy.org /lincoln/sacnfox.html   (1360 words)

  
 Saga of the Des Moines River Greenbelt 4
Indians were settled in the strip to act as a buffer between the warring parties.
The treaty that pertained to the acquisition of the Des Moines River area was known as the Sac and Fox Cession of 1842, or as the New Purchase of 1842.
Destitute Sac and Fox Indians whose hunting grounds had been impoverished by white trappers were begging for food and seeking Army protection from both the whites and the Sioux Indians.
www.desmoinesriver.org /saga4.htm   (3448 words)

  
 Sac and Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
At the time of Lewis and Clark, the Sac (sometimes spelled Sauk) and Fox Indians were so closely allied that they appeared to outsiders to be virtually one tribe.
The Sac and Fox were invaders in this country, defeating and displacing the Illini in 1769.
As a Loyalist in the American Revolution, he led Indian war parties against the settlements of the Ohio Valley and continued the same activity for many years as a British Indian agent.
www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/TheJourney/NativeAmericans/SacandFox.htm   (763 words)

  
 Brett Rushforth | Slavery, the Fox Wars, and the Limits of Alliance | The William and Mary Quarterly, 63.1 | The ...
The Fox wars were the cautionary lesson; they showed what happened when chiefs failed and when Onontio [the governor of New France] used violence against his own children." Reluctantly, then, absolutist France was "wrestled" onto the middle ground by their native allies, whose cultural models demanded mediation rather than mandates.
Instead Fox violence demanded a commensurate response—the killing of warriors and the capture of enemy villagers—that answered the demands of justice and restored balance to grieving families.
In 1713 François, a Fox boy, was baptized as the slave of Augustin Lemoyne, with highly visible and powerful godparents: Charles Lemoyne de Longueuil and Catherine de Ramezay, daughter of Montreal's governor and future interim governor of the colony.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/wm/63.1/rushforth.html   (11784 words)

  
 Fox River Paddling/Fishing Pages
The Fox Indians were a late arrival into the area and were driven here during the Beaver Wars between 1630-1690.
The Fox River has 15 dams, of which the tallest is 38 feet high and generates hydroelectric power.
The lower Fox between Sheridan and Wedron are sometimes referred to as the Illinois Dells because of the cliffs and scenery and is the section most often paddled.
pages.ripco.net /~jwn/fox.html   (3593 words)

  
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When I proceeded to their homes, they told me that the Fox Indians were not far off, and that they were going to take me there.
They told me that the Fox Indians were no longer at the Pomme de Cigne, and that they had retired to the Sans Fourche River.
I found several of them crossing the river at its widest part on a boom and two large stakes which the Fox Indians had arranged for going to and fro from one side of the river to the other when they were hunting.
www.gbl.indiana.edu /archives/miamis8/M31-45_36a.html   (2700 words)

  
 FOX Sports - MLB - Cleveland Indians Team Front
The Indians lost their sixth consecutive series Sunday, falling 7-3 to the Mariners, who took two of the three games over the weekend.
Following the game, the Indians made another roster move club officials never thought they would have to make at the start of the season.
Belliard is the fourth player traded by the Indians since they fell out of contention in the Central Division race.
msn.foxsports.com /mlb/team?categoryId=71591   (592 words)

  
 Sac and Fox Language and the Sac and Fox Indian Tribe (Mesquakie-Sauk, Meskwaki, Mesquaki)
This hostility was far from random, though--the Huron, armed with French weapons, had just finished driving the Fox from their lands in Michigan when the French themselves arrived, and the dispossessed Fox were not pleased with the newcomers.
Two Fox Wars ensued; the Fox Indians were no Iroquois Confederacy, though, and could not hold their own against the larger and better-armed French.
Luckily for the Fox and Sauk, the various Native Americans allied with the French were starting to put more and more pressure on them to abandon their commitment to genocide, and the French eventually gave in and made reluctant peace with the Sac and Fox tribes.
www.native-languages.org /meskwaki-sauk.htm   (618 words)

  
 Sac and Fox
The Sac and Fox were always forbidden to speak their native language and the practice of traditional religion was condemned.
The Sac and Fox culture is based upon respect for the life within themselves, their families, their communities, and all of creation.
Although the punishment for speaking their native language at the Sac and Fox Agency School meant a loss of identity for several generations of the tribe, the language and culture continues.
www.cowboy.net /native/sacnfox.html   (717 words)

  
 Fox Indians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Also, later in the history of the Fox tribe, the Indians were forced to give up their beliefs and convert to Christianity.
The Fox Indians used many tools in their daily lives Many of these were improved as the years went by.
Also, Black hawk was an amazing leader of the Fox Indians who goes down in American history as the Indian who defied government orders to vacate tribal villages and fertile fields along the Rock River in Illinois resulted in the brief but tragic Black hawk war of 1832.
www.up140.jacksn.k12.il.us /Wright/seventh/tribes/Fox.htm   (755 words)

  
 Harvey: The Trail of the Sac and Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
After the main body of the Sac and Fox moved on to their own lands, their associations with the Shawnees and other friendly Indians were such that there was much travel back and forth.
This ditch marks the path first used by the Indians as they went back and forth from the camping ground to the spring of sweet, beautiful water that flows from out the rocks at the foot of the hill.
It was not only a resting place, but a place where consultations and conferences were held, and where the eloquent ones told of the glory of Black Hawk, the wisdom of Keokok, and the splendid history of their tribe.
www.kancoll.org /books/harvey/sac.htm   (517 words)

  
 Fox Indians - LoveToKnow 1911
FOX INDIANS, the name, from one of their clans, of an Algonquian tribe, whose former range was central Wisconsin.
They call themselves Muskwakiuk, " red earth people." Owing to heavy losses in their wars with the Ojibways and the French, they allied themselves with the Sauk tribe about 1780, the two tribes being now practically one.
This page was last modified 17:59, 16 May 2006.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Fox_Indians   (65 words)

  
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Any child who is of Sac and Fox Indian blood and who is born of a marriage between a member of the Tribe and any other person, if such child is admitted to membership by the Council.
The membership of the Council shall be all the members of the Sac and Fox Tribe, both males and females twenty-one years of age and older.
The officers and members of the Grievance Committee elected at this election shall serve till the next regular election provided for in section 2 of this Article, or until their successors are elected and installed.
thorpe.ou.edu /IRA/s&fcons.html   (1146 words)

  
 History Channel Search Results
They were called Fox (Renards) by the French, possibly because they had a Fox clan, but they referred to themselves as Meskwakihuk (“red-earth people”).
Originally from Michigan, the Fox were driven out by enemy tribes in the early 17th century and crossed the Strait of Mackinac to resettle in northeastern Wisconsin.
Jim Thorpe was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma.
www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=209663   (278 words)

  
 The History :: Before 1832 Sauk-Fox Indians
The Sauk and the Fox Indians moved into Illinois in the mid 1740s, fleeing the warning Iroquois and Huron tribes who wanted their previous territory in Wisconsin.
Throughout the summer period, from April to October, the Sauk and Fox people would live in their village and work the land.
The Sauk-Fox Indians were deeply religious people, and they believed that they were the caretakers of the Earth.
www.rockfordparks.org /Atwood/history/h0.htm   (565 words)

  
 INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES. Vol. 1, Laws
Lands acquired from Sauk and Fox, Iowa, Citizen Band of Potawatomi and Absentee Shawnee Indians, Okla., opened to settlement september 22, 1891.
Whereas, it is provided in the Act of Congress, accepting, ratifying, and confirming said agreements with the Citizen Band of Pottawotomie Indians and the Absentee Shawnee Indians, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (26 Stats., pp.
Each entry shall be in square form as nearly as practicable, and no other lands in the Territory of Oklahoma are opened to settlement under this proclamation or the agreements ratifying the same.
digital.library.okstate.edu /Kappler/Vol1/HTML_files/PRO0949.html   (523 words)

  
 Native Americans: Sac and Fox History and Culture (Mesquakie-Sauk)
The emphasis of these pages is on American Indians as a living people with a present and a future as well as a past.
Sac and Fox history is interesting and important, but the Sac and Fox are still here today, too, and we try to feature modern writers as well as traditional folklore, contemporary art as well as museum pieces, and the issues and struggles of today as well as the tragedies of yesterday.
Homepage of the Sac and Fox of Oklahoma
www.native-languages.org /sac-fox.htm   (425 words)

  
 Thousands of Indians Protest Fox backed Development Plan
Carrying hundreds of signs that claimed Puebla-Panama marginalized their interests, thousands of Tzeltal, Tzotzil and Tojolabal Mayans chanted and sang in Spanish and their native languages, snarling traffic in Chiapas' largest city for most of the day.
Reached by telephone in Mexico City, some 460 miles (735 kilometers) to the northwest, a Fox spokesman said the president's office wasn't aware of the march and could not comment on it.
In June, Fox and Central American leaders ended a two-day regional summit by approving a 3 billion-dollar highway project for southern Mexico and Central America as part of the Puebla-Panama initiative.
www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/mexico/ppp/284.html   (359 words)

  
 Appleton History
A short history of the Lower Fox River accompanies photographs of the river dating from the turn of the century.
This study of the Winnebago Indians was originally published as a part of a report by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1923.
The Fox Citian was a monthly magazine published in 1967, providing a contemporary look at activities in the Fox River Valley communities.
www.apl.org /history/wiscollbks.html   (1827 words)

  
 Fox Cry Review Archive
Housed at the University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley and published annually since 1974, Fox Cry Review is one of the oldest literary magazines in the nation associated with a two-year college.
Throughout its history, Fox Cry Review has been a collaborative effort among faculty members in the UW-Fox Valley English Department, UW Fox creative writing students, and participants in the UW Fox Writing Club.
As this rich history demonstrates, Fox Cry Review serves a community of writers and readers by publishing high-quality literature and art work.
www.fox.uwc.edu /academics/depts/foxcry   (605 words)

  
 Indian Claims Commission Decisions
The Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma,
Edward Mack, et al., ex rel., The Sac and Fox of the Mississippi and the Sac and Fox Nation of Indians occupying a reservation in the territory of Oklahoma,
The Iowa Tribe of the Iowa Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska, the Iowa Tribe of the Iowa Reservation in Oklahoma, et al., The Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma, The Sac and Fox Tribe of Missouri, The Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, et al.,
digital.library.okstate.edu /icc/v35/v35toc.html   (642 words)

  
 Fox Reference,
The Fox Indians, who number only about 500, live in eastern Iowa, near the village of Tama.
About two centuries ago they merged with the neighboring Sac, or Sauk, tribe who spoke the same language, and thus the language is sometimes referred to as Fox and Sac.
The Fox language is of the Algonkian family.
www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Fox.htm   (245 words)

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