sauk

noun, plural Sauks, (especially collectively) Sauk.

1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Wisconsin and Iowa, now living mostly in Oklahoma.
2. the dialect of the Fox language spoken by the Sauk.

1midwestern U.S. Indian tribe, 1722, alternative writing of Sac. 2southern Coastal Salishan group of Native Americans, from a native Lushootseed name, probably folk-etymologized by influence of Sauk (1).