The tribe's housing authority is located in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Membership in the tribe requires a minimum 1/8 blood quantum, with proven descent to ancestors on recognized rolls.

Of the 3,794 enrolled tribal members, 2,557 live in Oklahoma. Elections are held in August in odd-numbered years. A council of five elected officials, each elected for a four-year term, govern the tribe. The Sac and Fox Nation is headquartered in Stroud, Oklahoma, and their tribal jurisdictional area covers Lincoln, Payne, and Pottawatomie counties. Oil painting in the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa Government Black Hawk and His Son Whirling Thunder, 1833. Thakiwaki and Sa ki wa ki mean 'people coming forth from the water'. They speak very similar Algonquian languages, which are sometimes considered to be two dialects of the same language, rather than separate languages. The Sac and Fox tribes have historically been closely allied, and continue to be in the present day. 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 Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area (OTSA) is the land base in Oklahoma governed by the tribe. Originally from the Lake Huron and Lake Michigan area, they were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma in the 1870s and are predominantly Sauk. The Sac and Fox Nation ( Mesquakie language: Othâkîwaki / Thakiwaki or Sa ki wa ki) is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Sauk and Meskwaki (Fox) Indian peoples.

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