Term: Saukenuk
Definition:
village of the Sauk and Fox Indians, ca. 1750-1829, on the lower Rock River in northwestern Illinois where they raised 800 acres of corn, pumpkins, squash and beans; birthplace of Black Hawk; seized by white settlers in 1829.
View pictures relating to Sauk Indians at Wisconsin Historical Images.
[Source: Wyman, Mark. The Wisconsin Frontier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).]
