Main Street is seen through the eyes of Carol Kennicott, an Eastern girl married to a Midwestern doctor who settles in Gopher Prairie, Minnesota (modeled on Lewis' hometown of Sauk Centre).
Rahm Emanuel kept the one he was assigned (to all non-American readers it might seem an odd choice, but the Blackhawks are Chicago's ice-hockey team, and they take their name from Black Hawk, a leader of the Sauk Indian tribe, who roamed in what today is western Illinois).Anybody want to hazard a guess about other protectees and their chosen names?
For the Algonquin, Iroquois, Huron, Wampanoag, Mohican, Ojibwa, Ho-chunk (Winnebago), Sauk, Fox, and Illinois peoples the most important social and economic unit was the village, which consisted of a few dozen to a few hundred persons.
The town was platted in 1837 and was named for Keokuk, a chief of the Sauk Indians who advocated conciliation with settlers; his grave is in a city park.
The French, who defeated a group of Fox and Sauk Indians in the Grosse Pointe Park area (1712), established ribbon farms along the swampy shore that became part of Grosse Pointe township (organized in 1848 and named for a point of land projecting into the lake).
Defeated in a war with the Sauk and Fox in 1798, the remnants of the Missouri scattered to live with the Osage, the Kansa, and the Oto.
The highest point in Missouri is Taum Sauk Mountain (1,772 feet [540 m]), west of Ironton, in the St . FrancoisMountains.
The first settlement on the site, in an area known as Black Hawk hunting ground (frequented by Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo Indians), was made about 1815.
He went to the upper Midwest and founded what is now Sauk City, Wis.
His words were translated from Sauk into English by LeClair and then written down by Patterson.
