Sauk

Many tribes have sub-tribes, bands, gens, clans and phratry.  Often very little information is known or they no longer exist.  We have included them here to provide more information about the tribes. Akuninak (á‛kuni ‘bone’, -nawe ‘town, country’, -ki ‘place where’: ‘at the bone place’) . A group of Sauk and Foxes who lived together in a village near where some huge bones, probably of a mastodon, lay imbedded in the ground. Wm.. Tones, inf’n, 1905. British Band. A former band of the Sank and Foxes. See Sauk.