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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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| The oocytes of secondary follicles were surrounded by more than one layer of granulosa cells or by one layer plus an incomplete second layer with signs of theca interna development. 6) In a commemorative work for his friend Tobias Hess, Andreae had gathered together thoughts and notes from Hess's manuscripts as Theca gladii spiritus, sententias quasdem breves vereque philosophicas continens (Strasbourg, 1616), which contained enough citations from Andreae's own work, such as De Christiani Cosmoxeni genitura, Judicium (Strasbourg, 1612, dedicated to Hess), to make clear that they had at the very least worked collaboratively. Customers and advertisers alike are all enjoying search times and precise searches based on even the vaguest of keywords thanks to the industries most robust, proven, and reliable search engine, the Apptus Theca search engine. |
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