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KnoShr, Kansa Chief, 1853. The Kaw Nation (or Kanza or Kansa) is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma and parts of Kansas. The Kaw people historically lived in the central Midwestern United States. They have also been called the "People of the South wind", [2] "People of water", Kansa, Kaza, Konza, Conza, Quans, Kosa, and Kasa.
Meskwaki are of Algonquian origin from the prehistoric Woodland period culture area. The Meskwaki language is a dialect of the Sauk-Fox-Kickapoo language spoken by the Sauk, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo. [8] It belongs to the Algic language family, and thus descended from Proto-Algic. The Meskwaki and Sauk peoples are two distinct tribal groups.
Sauk people. Massika, a Sauk Indian, left, with Wakusasse (Meskwaki) at right. Aquatint of painting by Karl Bodmer, made at St. Louis in Spring 1833 when Massika pleaded for the release of war chief Blackhawk following the Black Hawk War. The Sauk or Sac are Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands.
The Osage Nation (/ ΛoΚseΙͺdΚ / OH-sayj) (Osage: ππ» ππΌπ°ππΌπ°Ν, romanized: Ni OkaškΔ , lit. 'People of the Middle Waters') is a Midwestern American tribe of the Great Plains. The tribe began in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 700 B.C. along with other groups of its language family, then migrated west ...
Ponca. The Ponca people[a] are a nation primarily located in the Great Plains of North America that share a common Ponca culture, history, and language, identified with two Indigenous nations: the Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma or the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. This nation comprised the modern-day Ponca, Omaha, Kaw, Osage, and Quapaw peoples ...
The Sac and Fox Nation (Meskwaki language: Othâkîwaki / Thakiwaki or Sa ki wa ki) is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) Indian peoples. Originally from the Lake Huron and Lake Michigan area, they were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in the 1870s and are predominantly Sauk. [2]
Sac and Fox Reservation. Coordinates: 40°00′02″N 95°31′05″W. The Sac and Fox Reservation of Sauk (Sac) and Meskwaki (Fox) people is a 23.639 sq mi (61.226 km 2) tract located in southeastern Richardson County, Nebraska, and northeastern Brown County, Kansas. It is governed by the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska ...
The Kickapoo people (Kickapoo: Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi; Spanish: Kikapú) are an Algonquian -speaking Native American tribe and Indigenous people in Mexico, originating in the region south of the Great Lakes. Today, three federally recognized Kickapoo tribes are in the United States: the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas, the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma ...