Sauk and Fox

Plains culture. Two distinct tribes with nearly identical languages who politically merged.

Alternate Names/Spellings: Sauk-Fox, Sac and Fox

Sauk: Osakiwuk, Asakiwaki Osawkee, Saki, Saque, Sawkee.

Fox: Meshwahkihaki, Mequakie, Meskwaki, Meskwakihuk, Meskwakihugi, Meshkwahkihaki,

Called by other Native Americans

Sauk: Hotinestakon (Onondaga), Osaugee (Ojibwe), Quatokeronon (Huron), Satoeronnon
(Huron), Zake (Dakota), and Zagi (Winnebago).

Fox: Outagamie or Odugameeg (Ojibwe), Beshdeke (Dakota), Skenchioe (Iroquois), Skaxshurunu (Wyandot), Skenchiohronon (Huron), Mshkwa'kitha (Shawnee), Tochewahcoo (Arikara), Wacereke (Winnebago), and Wakusheg
(Potawatomi).

Location: Originally what is now Michigan, US; driven through the Midwest.

Language: Wakashan is an Algic language in the Algonquian stock.

The Saponi, Tutelo, and Monacan are closely related groups who all spoke the same language. They are eastern Siouan, related to the Cheraw, Catawba and Waccamaw in the Carolinas. The Occaneechi have a separate history from the rest, they were largely destroyed in a war with other Saponi and White settlers. Saponi descendants have become known as the Melungeons, Goinstown Indians and Person County Indians as well as the groups which keep the name Saponi, The Haliwa-Saponi and the Occaneechi. A large group of the Saponi who joined the Cherokee for protection are known as the (Southern) Blackfoot.

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation was formally recognized by the US government in January 2004. It has a 400-acre reservation at the foot of Schaghticoke Mountain in northwestern Connecticut (town of Kent). The Bureau of Indian Affairs calls the Schaghticoke "an amalgamation of the Weantinock and Potatuck". The Schaghticoke have lived in northwestern Connecticut since before the Revolutionary War, in which they fought as a group on the American side.

Carrier-Sekani First Nation

Open to sites featuring the First Nations of the Carrier and Sekani peoples, or the McLeod Lake Indian Band. 

Alternate Spellings: Tse'Khene, Tsekani

Location:  McLeod Lake area, British Columbia, Canada.

Language:  Tsekani, a Na-Dene Language

The Sioux call themselves Dakota, Lakhota, or Nakoda, depending on the language they speak (it is the word for "men" rendered in the three related Siouan Proper languages). "Sioux" is still commonly used to refer to the group in general, but not by the people themselves, for it is an insult from their traditional enemies the Ojibwe, meaning "rattlesnake" or "treacherous."

The word "'Spokane" is generally accepted as meaning "Sun People" or "Children of the Sun".

Sites in this category provide information on the history and culture of the Susquehannock Indians, who were also known as the Andaste and later as the Conestoga. The Susquehannock were often described as a warrior tribe that once controlled a vast territory of central Pennsylvania. This category may also include sites about the unnamed predecessors of the Susquehannock.