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.
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