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The Fox originally lived east of Michigan along the Saint Lawrence River. The tribe may have numbered as many as many as 10,000 but years of war with the French-supplied Hurons reduced their numbers and forced them west first to the area between Saginaw Bay and Detroit in Michigan and then to Wisconsin. When the French had first contact with them they estimated that the Fox numbered about 6,500. By 1712, they were down to 3,500 when the First Fox War broke out with the French (1712-1714). The Second Fox War from 1728 found the remaining 1500 Fox reduced to 500 who found shelter with the Sac and brought French animosity to that tribe.

Members of the Fox tribe spread through southern Wisconsin, and the Iowa- Illinois border. In 1829 the government estimated there were 1500 Fox (along with 5500 Sac). Some of them were involved with some of the Sac in the Blackhawk War when they refused to give up their lands in Illinois.

Fox who had successfully fled west of the Mississippi River were known as the "lost people" by the Dakota.

They were later driven from Iowa to reservations in Iowa with the Sac and were treated as a unified tribe since. Soon after they were forced to a reservation in Indian TerritoryIndian Territory also known as Indian Country Indian territory or the Indian territories was the land set aside within the United States for the use of Native Americans. The general borders were set by the Indian Intercourse Act of 1834. It was more prope, now OklahomaOklahoma ( In Detail) (Full size) State nickname: Sooner State Other U. States Capital Oklahoma City Largest City Oklahoma City Governor Brad Henry Area Total Land Water % water Ranked 20th 181,196 km² 178,023 km² 3,173 km² 1. 8% Population Total ( 2000). By 1910, there were only about 1000 Sac and Fox altogether and, even by 2000, their number was less than 4000.