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Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska

Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska

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Official name
Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska
Recorded status
Listed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (91 FR 4102, January 30, 2026)

In the record

This nation carries the history of Sauk (Sac) in the treaty record.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

Treaty or agreementTreaty under documented pressureRemoval treatyShapes from the 1899 federal record: approximate, not legal boundaries.

The record over time

178018001850190019502000todayTreatiesTreaty of Fort Harmar with the Wyandot and allied nations, 1789 (1789)Treaty of St. Louis with the Sauk and Fox, 1804 (1804)Sauk at Portage des Sioux (1815) (1815)Treaty of St. Louis with the Sauk of Rock River, 1816 (1816)Sauk and Fox at Fort Armstrong (1822) (1822)Sauk and Fox at Washington, DC (1824) (1824)Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1825) (1825)Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1830), Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Omaha, Iowa, Oto, Missouri (1830)Black Hawk Purchase (Treaty of Fort Armstrong), 1832 (1832)Iowa and Sauk and Fox of the Missouri (West of Missouri) at Fort Leavenworth (1836) (1836)Sauk and Fox (1836) (1836)Sauk and Fox at Treaty Ground on the Mississippi Opposite Rock Island, Dubuque County, Wisconsin Territory (1836) (1836)Sauk and Fox (Confederated Tribes) at Washington, DC (1837) (1837)Sauk and Fox of Missouri at Washington, DC (1837) (1837)Sauk and Fox at Sauk and Fox Agency, Iowa Territory (1842) (1842)Sauk and Fox of Missouri at Washington, DC (1854) (1854)Sauk and Fox at Sauk and Fox Agency, Kansas Territory (1859) (1859)Sauk and Fox of the Missouri and Iowa at Great Nemaha Agency, Nebraska Territory (1861) (1861)Sauk and Fox of the Mississippi at Washington, DC (1867) (1867)Land takenLand of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri, ceded 1830 (area 151) (1830)Land of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Iowa, recorded 1830 (area 152) (1830)Land of the Iowa, Medewakanton and others in Iowa and Minnesota, ceded 1830 (area 153) (1830)Land of the Sauk and Fox in Iowa, ceded 1832 (area 175) (1832)Land of the Sauk and Fox in Iowa, ceded 1836 (area 226) (1836)Land of the Sauk and Fox in Iowa, ceded 1837 (area 244) (1837)Land of the Sauk and Fox in Iowa, ceded 1842 (area 262) (1842)Land of the Iowa, Medewahkanton and others in Minnesota, recorded 1830 (area 292) (1830)Land of the Sauk and Fox of the Missouri in Kansas, ceded 1854 (area 324) (1854)Land of the Sauk and Fox of the Mississippi in Kansas, ceded 1859 (area 419) (1859)Land of the Sauk and Fox of the Missouri and the Iowa in Nebraska, ceded 1861 (area 427) (1861)Land of the Sauk and Fox of the Missouri and the Iowa in Kansas, ceded 1876 (area 428) (1876)Land of the Sauk and Fox of the Missouri and the Iowa in Kansas, recorded 1836 (area 429) (1836)Land of the Sauk and Fox of the Mississippi in Kansas, ceded 1867 (area 494) (1867)Land of the Sauk and Fox of the Mississippi in Oklahoma, ceded 1891 (area 495) (1891)Land of the Sauk and Fox in Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin, ceded 1804 (area 50) (1804)Land of the Sauk and Fox in Wisconsin, ceded 1804 (area 51) (1804)Land of the Great and Little Osage, Iowa and others in Missouri, ceded 1808 (area 69) (1808)Promises brokenTreaty of St. Louis 1804: cession signed by a delegation with no authority to sell (1804)

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Land recorded as ceded

This nation carries the history of peoples named in Royce’s schedule. Their record:

Sauk (Sac) About 62 million acres recorded as ceded by the end of 1894
  • Treaty or agreement13 million
  • Treaty under documented pressure38 million
  • Removal treaty12 million

Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.

22 cessions. Follow Sauk (Sac) through the years on the map

Who is doing the work

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Connections

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Land recorded in this nation’s name 17, matched by the Forest Service, under review

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Carries the treaty history of 1

Sources

  1. missouriencyclopedia.org/groupsorganizations/sac-and-foxunclassified
    the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska at Reserve, Kansas, with about 450 members
  2. Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the BIA, 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026)primary record
    Listed in 91 FR 4102 (Jan. 30, 2026).
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