Saukiog
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The Saukiog were an Indigenous Native American nation populating a village of the same name in the 1600s, located around what is now Hartford, Connecticut.[1][2] The Saukiog are often presumed to be politically part of the Wangunk and Wappinger[2] however this is disputed.[3]
Name
[edit]Saukiog has also been spelled Suckiog,[2] Sicajoock,[3] Sickaog, Siacaog[4], Suckiaug,[5] and Suckiauk.[6] It translates as "Black Soil."[7]
Territory
[edit]The Saukiog lived in what is now Hartford, Connecticut, within the sachemship of the Saukiog, whose territory extended into present-day Hartford, Connecticut.[4]
Language
[edit]The Saukiog spoke an Algonquian dialect.[5]
History
[edit]In 1636, Sequassen, their sachem, sold their land to the British.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Spiess, Mathias (1933). The Indians of Connecticut. Tercentenary pamphlet series. Vol. 1. New Haven: the Yale University Press. pp. 14–17.
- ^ a b c Lavin, Lucianne M. (2015). "Pre-colonial History of the Wangunk". Indigenous Middletown: Settler Colonial and Wangunk Tribal History.
- ^ a b Ives, Timothy Howlett (2001-01-01). "Wangunk Ethnohistory: A Case Study of a Connecticut River Indian Community". Department of Anthropology of the College of William and Mary. doi:10.21220/s2-xcrv-vp43.
- ^ a b Swanton, John Reed (1952). The Indian Tribes of North America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 45, 47.
- ^ a b "The History of Early Hartford, CT". Founders of Hartford. Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford. Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ Swanton, John Reed (1952). The Indian Tribes of North America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 47.
- ^ Decker, Robert Owen (1987). Hartford Immigrants: A History of the Christian Activities Council (Congregational), 1850–1980. Hartford, CT: Christian Activities Council. p. 213. ISBN 9780829805772.