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Sac: see Sac and Fox Sac and Fox, closely related Native Americans of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). Sac and Fox culture was of the Eastern Woodlands area with some Plains-area traits (see under Natives, North American ..... Click the link for more information. . Saukor SacAlgonquian-speaking North American Indian people closely related to the Fox and Kickapoo who traditionally inhabited the region of what is now Green Bay, Wis., U.S. In summer the Sauk lived in bark-house villages near fields where women raised corn and other crops. In winter the village separated into patrilineal family groups that erected pole-and-thatch houses. In spring they gathered on the Iowa prairie to hunt bison. By c. 1800 the Sauk had settled along the Mississippi River in central Illinois, but they were forced to cede these lands to the U.S. In 1832 a group of Sauk and Fox led by Black Hawk made a tragically unsuccessful attempt to return to their Illinois lands. Today some 7,000 people claim Sauk and Fox ancestry. sac a pouch, bag, or pouchlike part in an animal or plant
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Ponganis, his Scripps colleague Torrence Knower Stockard, and an
international team found that when diving, penguins nearly deplete the
oxygen in the special avian air sacs attached to their lungs. On Day 8, the class ``candled'' the eggs with a film
strip projector to see the air sac and the embryo, which looks like a
question mark. The ruptured air sac wails make
breathing extremely difficult. |
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