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loway, Oto, and Osage, all of southern Siouan stock, and the Yuchi 

 and Creek. The culture of the Siouan tribes, while closest to the Cen- 

 tral Algonkian in point of things material, contrasts strongly on the 

 side of mental, social and religious activities. It is probably from these 

 peoples, especially from the loway, who befriended and fraternized 

 with them, that the peculiarly complex and unusually stiff gentile or- 

 ganization of the Sauk, so unlike the indefinite and loose customs of 

 the general run of Algonkians of the central region, is due, although 

 Iroquoian influence may have played some part. 



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Fig. 1. — A Sauk Indian summer Iiark huusc near Avery, Oklahoma. 



The Sauk evidently made no little impression on the inhabitants, 

 both red and white, in the territories through which they passed. In 

 Wisconsin, in particular, there may still be found numerous names de- 

 rived from that of the tribe. Among them are Ozaukee county, Sauk 

 county, Prairie du Sac, Sauk City and Saukville. Although some early 

 writers speak of a Sauk village at Milwaukee, no evidence of this 

 remains. 



Unlike the Tama Fox, or Muskwaki, the Sauk of Oklahoma dwell 

 almost entirely in modern frame houses with many conveniences. The 



