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#Most warlike indian tribe free#
The American History & Genealogy Project (AHGP) is a group of like-minded individuals committed to providing free access to American genealogical and historical information online. Kramer & Company, Rock Island, Illinois, 1908 Source: Historic Rock Island County, pub. You can find the specific Sac and Fox information below:
They then formed an alliance with the Pottawattomies, Menominees and Winnebagoes, and together attacked the Illinois and gradually drove these people further southward. These tribes next waged war upon the Mascoutins and in a battle opposite the mouth of the Iowa River defeated and almost exterminated this tribe. Upon these they commenced war, finally driving them out of the country, which they then took possession of and occupied. On arriving there they found that country inhabited by the Sauteaux, a branch of the Chippewa tribe. Those who survived the slaughter removed to the Mississippi River. The Sacs and Foxes made depredations on the French traders and exacted tribute from them, whereon the French commandant of the post at Green Bay took a party of his men in covered boats, and while distracting the attention of the Indians, opened fire on them from the water, at the same time that his Menominee allies attacked their village from the banks in the rear. Early in the eighteenth century they were driven from Green Bay and the Fox River by the Menominees, who were aided by the Ottawas, Chippewas and the French. Francis Xavier in 1669, found them located near, and in 1672 he commenced preaching the gospel to them. Father Claude Allouez, when he established the mission of St. Marquette’s map of 1673 locates the Foxes on the Fox River between the present Green Bay and Lake Winnebago. At what time these two tribes came to Green Bay is not known. Both the Sacs and Foxes belong to the Algonquin family. Through intermarriage and long residence they became substantially one people, an alliance lasting to this day. Here it seems both tribes were frequently attacked by other tribes of Indians, until at last they united, forming an offensive and defensive union, each however, retaining its tribal name. They were next engaged in war with the Wyandottes, and again were they compelled to hurry towards the setting sun, until at length they reached Green Bay on Lake Michigan, near where the Foxes had made their habitation. The Sacs after a long and bloody war with the Iroquois were driven from the St. They settled along the river that bears their name and which empties into Green Bay. The Foxes were the first to migrate west. The early French named this tribe, Renards and the Americans called them Foxes. The word “Ou-Sakis ” or “Sau-Kee,” now written Sac and Sauk, is derived from the compound word “A-Sau-we-Kee” signifying yellow earth, and “Mus-qua-Kee,” the original name of the Foxes, means red earth. About 1722 northwestern Illinois became the home and the hunting ground of the Sacs and Foxes.
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