Saukiog

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. The Saukiog are often presumed to be politically part of the Wangunk and Wappinger however this is disputed.

Name

Saukiog has also been spelled Suckiog, Sicajoock, Sickaog, Siacaog, Suckiaug, and Suckiauk. It translates as "Black Soil."

Territory

The Saukiog lived in what is now Hartford, Connecticut, within the sachemship of the Saukiog, whose territory extended into present-day Hartford, Connecticut.

Language

The Saukiog spoke an Algonquian dialect.

History

In 1636, Sequassen, their sachem, sold their land to the British.

References

  1. 1 2 Spiess, Mathias (1933). The Indians of Connecticut. Tercentenary pamphlet series. Vol. 1. New Haven: the Yale University Press. pp. 14–17.
  2. 1 2 3 Lavin, Lucianne M. (2015). "Pre-colonial History of the Wangunk". Indigenous Middletown: Settler Colonial and Wangunk Tribal History.
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. 1 2 Swanton, John Reed (1952). The Indian Tribes of North America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 45, 47.
  5. 1 2 "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.
  6. ↑ Swanton, John Reed (1952). The Indian Tribes of North America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 47.
  7. ↑ 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.