Osaakiiwaki

The Osaakiiwaki, or Sauk, were an Algonquian people whose historical territory lay near Green Bay. After conflicts with New France and other peoples, they and their Meskwaki allies lived along the Mississippi in the eighteenth century.

The disputed Treaty of St. Louis ceded land east of the Mississippi to the United States in 1804. In 1832 the Sauk leader Black Hawk crossed back into Illinois with Sauk, Meskwaki and Kickapoo followers; American forces defeated them in the ensuing Black Hawk War.