called by white writers the Fox Indians, they came into Wisconsin ca. 1650 from the east under pressure from the Iroquois; throughout the first half of the 18th century they attempted to control key locations on the principal fur trade routes in Wisconsin, and were consequently at war with the French and their Indian allies for decades; after 1750 they were closely allied with the Sauk, with whom they relocated west of the Mississippi about 1830.

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[Source: Wyman, Mark. The Wisconsin Frontier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).]