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the Noquets and Saulters, and also a language similar to 

 theirs. But they say that they have also a peculiar language 

 of their own, which they keep to themselves. [Char.^ vol. 5, 

 p. 430.] Long says they are of a very light color, and that 

 even before their admixture with the French, they were 

 lighter than their neighbors, — and they are often called the 

 White Indians. 



The Saukies, though small in number, are divided into two 

 factions, of which one is attached to the Outagamis, the other 

 to the Potawatamis. [Char., vol. 5, p. 432.] When the 

 whites first came to the St. Lawrence, the Saukis were living 

 in the country about its mouth. They afterward migrated to 

 the west, and were found by Hennepin about the bend of the 

 Wisconsin River. They probably extended northward to the 

 Chippeway grounds : as they subsequently had a difficulty 

 with that nation, which resulted in the removal of the Sauks 

 to the south, and their establishment on Rock River. It 

 appears, however, that in retiring south, they did not yield 

 their possessions on the Wisconsin, which they subsequently 

 sold to the United States. The contest by which they were 

 driven from, the Wisconsin to the Rock River may have been 

 about the time of our revolution, as Long and Maj. Marston 

 agree that they came to the latter place at about that period. 

 Here a portion of them resided at the breaking out of the 

 war of 1812, and still remained till the Black Hawk war in 

 1832. A part of the tribe left the Rock River settlement 

 about the beginning of the present century, and took up their 

 residence on the Missouri, where they have since remained. 

 Some of them have been mixed with the Potawatamis. And 

 the Shawnees are descendants of a seceding band of Sacs. 

 The main body, formerly numbering about five or six thou- 

 sand, gave up their Rock River lands to the whites, and 

 removed west of the Missisippi, which cession was the cause 



