The foxes were a tribe of Indians of America appartenenti to the family linguistic algonchina and to the cultural area of the oriental forests. Called by the French renardses (" foxes ", from which the denomination English fox), they were attributed the name meskwahki-haki ("people of the red earths"). you/they were aboriginal of the Michigan but they crossed him/it narrow of Mackinac and, to the beginning of the XVII century, pushed by hostile populations, they were installed in the northeastern Wisconsin. They were agriculturists, they cultivated corn, beans and pumpkins, while in winter it departs of them it was moved more to west to chase the bisons. You/they had divided in clan patrilineari. They were almost boundless from a war with French, and for this motive in 1760 they were united to the sacs (or sauk), other group of language algonquian, aboriginal of the Michigan and subsequently emigrant in the Wisconsin, ending to take office on the two shores of the river Mississippi in Illinois and in the near areas with him. The Fox were moved to a reserve in the Kansas, but in 1859 you/they returned in Iowa and they acquired some earths in the county of Tama, where some of them still live.
