Editing Sac and Fox Nation (section)

{{Short description|Federally recognized Native American tribe based in Oklahoma}}
{{ethnic group|
|group=Sac and Fox Nation
|flag=
|flag_caption=Tribal flag
|population=3,794<ref name=oia>[http://www.ok.gov/oiac/documents/2011.FINAL.WEB.pdf 2011 Oklahoma Indian Nations Pocket Pictorial Directory.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424052416/http://www.ok.gov/oiac/documents/2011.FINAL.WEB.pdf |date=April 24, 2012 }} ''Oklahoma Indian Affairs Commission.'' 2011: 31. Retrieved January 29, 2012.</ref>
|popplace=[[United States]] ([[Oklahoma]])
|rels=Drum Society, [[Native American Church]],<br/> and [[Christianity]]<ref name=ohs/>
|langs=[[English language|English]], [[Sac language|Sauk]]
|related=other [[Sauk people]], [[Meskwaki]], [[Kickapoo people|Kickapoo]],<br/>and other [[Algonquian peoples]] 
}}
The '''Sac and Fox Nation''' ([[Sauk language]]: '''Thâkîwaki''') is the largest of three [[federally recognized tribes|federally recognized]] tribes of [[Sauk people|Sauk]] and [[Meskwaki|Meskwaki (Fox)]] [[American Indians in the United States|Indian peoples]]. They are based in central [[Oklahoma]].<ref name=ohs/>

Originally from the [[Lake Huron]] and [[Lake Michigan]] area, they were forcibly relocated to [[Oklahoma]] in the 1870s and are predominantly Sauk.<ref name="ohs">{{cite web |last1=McCollum |first1=Timothy James |title=Sac and Fox |url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=SA001 |website=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |access-date=15 January 2025}}</ref> The Sac and Fox Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area (OTSA) is the [[Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area|land base in Oklahoma]] governed by the tribe.

The two other Sac and Fox tribes are the [[Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa]] and the [[Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska]]. The Sac and Fox tribes have historically been closely allied, and continue to be in the present day. They speak very similar [[Algonquian languages]], which are sometimes considered to be two dialects of the same language, rather than separate languages.