(biology) A soft-walled cavity within a plant or animal, often containing a special fluid and usually having a narrow opening or none at all.
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(biology) A soft-walled cavity within a plant or animal, often containing a special fluid and usually having a narrow opening or none at all.
(mapping) Indentation in the contour lines of equal depth showing submarine relief.
A pouch or sac-like structure.
A pouch; a baglike organ or structure. See also conjunctival sac.
The Sauks or Sacs (oθaakiiwaki in their own language or Ozaagii(-wag) in Ojibwe from where their French and English names are derived) are a group of Native Americans.
Originally, the Sac were governed by a patrilineal clans system. Clans which continue are: Fish, Ocean/Sea, Thunder, Bear, Fox, Potato, Deer, Beaver, Snow, and Wolf. The tribe was governed by a council of sacred clan chiefs, a war chief, the head of families, and the warriors. Chiefs fell into three categories: civil, war, and ceremonial, but only the civil chief was hereditary. Other two chiefs were determined by demonstrating their ability or their spiritual power. This traditional manner of selecting historic clan chiefs and governing themselves was at first forcibly replaced by United States appointees of the Sac and Fox Agency and now by constitutional government patterned after the American form.
The Sac may have had their original territory along the St. Lawrence River. However, migration patterns of other tribes drove them to Michigan around Saginaw Bay. Due to the yellow clay soils found around Saginaw Bay, their self-designation became Oθaakiiwaki which is often interpreted to mean "yellow-earth". The Ojibwe and Ottawa name for the tribe is Ozaagii, meaning "Those at the Outlet", whence they were known by the French as "Sac" or by the English as "Sauk". With the Anishinaabe expansion and Hurons attempts at gaining regional stability, the Sac were driven by the Hurons armed with French weapons. They then occupied territory in parts of what are now northern Illinois and Wisconsin.
Their closely allied tribe, the Fox, were noted for their hostility towards the French and fought two Fox Wars in the early 18th century. After the second war, the Sac sheltered the remaining Fox in their camp and were subject to French attack themselves. The Sac continued moving west to Iowa and Kansas. There were two crucial leaders of the Sac at this time. Keokuk accepted the loss of land (at first, east of the Mississippi) as inevitable in the face of vast numbers of white soldiers and settlers. He tried to preserve peacefully whatever remnant of tribal land he could. Having failed to receive supplies on credit as their embassy just returned from Washington expected, Black Hawk wanted to fight, saying his people were "forced into war by being deceived."[1] The refusal of the band of mainly Sac under Black Hawk in 1832 to accept the continued loss of lands (in western Illinois, this time) led to their reduction in importance at the hands of General Edmund P. Gaines in the Blackhawk War. About this time, one group of Sac moved into Missouri and later to Kansas and Nebraska. The larger group of Sac moved into reservations in Oklahoma in 1869 where they merged with the Fox as the Sac and Fox Nation. A smaller number returned from Oklahoma (or did not go) and became the Mesquakie tribe in Iowa.
As of 2006 the Sac and Fox communities in existence are:
The Sac speak an Algonquian language, now called Sauk language, which is a dialect of the same language spoken by the Meskwaki, and very closely related to that of the Kickapoo. Their language is now pretty much extinct. Supposedly, the now extinct Mascouten language was also related to the Sauk language.
Lake Osakis in west-central Minnesota, the Sauk River, which flows from Lake Osakis, and the towns of Osakis, Sauk Centre, and Sauk Rapids all received their names as a result of an historical association with a small group of Sauks who, having been banished from their tribe for murder, made camp on the shores of Lake Osakis. According to Ojibwa oral tradition, these five Sauks were massacred by local Dakota Indians in the late 18th century.[2]
Other places with "Sauk" references include Prairie du Sac, Sauk City, Saukville and Sauk County in Wisconsin, Sac City and Sac County in Iowa, Sac Townships in Iowa and Missouri, Sauk Village, Illinois, Le Sauk and Little Sauk Townships in Minnesota, and Sauk Prairie and Sauk Valley Townships in North Dakota. The name of the city of Saginaw, Michigan is believed to mean "where the Sauk were" in the Ojibwe language.
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n. - Sac (indfødt amerikansk folkeslag), medlem af Sac, sproget Sac
abbr. - Strategic Air Command
Nederlands (Dutch)
blaas, zakachtige holte, blokkeren van de quarterback in Amerikaans voetbal
Français (French)
n. - (Anat, Bot) sac, (Zool) poche (de liquide)
n. - Indiens d'Amérique du Nord
abbr. - (abrév = Strategic Air Command) (US, Aviat) l'aviation militaire stratégique (américaine)
n. - (Plur.) Saks (Volk)
abbr. - Strategisches Luftkommando, hochrangiger Luftwaffenoffizier
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (βιολ.) ασκός, θύλακος, σάκος
Português (Portuguese)
n. - saco (m) (Anat.)
Русский (Russian)
стратегическое военное командование (ВВС США), сумка, киста
Español (Spanish)
n. - bolsa, saco
n. - dialecto del lenguaje Fox, hablado por los Sauk (indios de Norteamérica)
abbr. - Comando Aéreo Estratégico
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
战略空军司令部
美国索克族印第安人, 索克语
圣事, 神圣
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
abbr. - (US) Strategic Air Command 之縮寫, 戰略空軍司令部
n. - 美國索克族印第安人, 索克語
n. - 聖事, 神聖
n. - 소크족(북아메리카 인디언의 한 종족)
abbr. - Senate Appropriations Committee (상원 세출위원회), Strategic Air Command (미전략 공군 사령부)
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ソーク族, 嚢, 液嚢, 気嚢
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) جيب, كيس
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - כיס, שלפוחית, שק
n. - בן לשבט אינדיאני החי באוקלהומה, שפת סאק
abbr. - איש-תעופה בכיר
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