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Fox (1)

Fox [ foks ] (plural Fox)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. member of Native N American people: a member of a Native North American people who lived in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, and now live mainly in Oklahoma and Iowa. Following U.S. attempts under a spurious treaty to move the Fox from their lands in Illinois, they joined with the Sauk in the Black Hawk War of 1832.

2. Algonquian language: a language spoken in parts of Iowa and Oklahoma, belonging to the Algonquian group of Algonquian-Wakashan. Native speakers: 2,000.

[Translation of French Renards, translation of Iroquoian Skenchiohronon "people of the red fox"]

Fox adjective
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