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	Biography of Black Hawk
		Black Hawk and other Sauk chiefs argued that the treaty was not valid because most of the Sauk Nation was not told of the treaty, and those who signed did not represent them.
		Black Hawk lead a war party to destroy the fort and massacre the troops but withdrew when confronted with loaded cannons.
		Black Hawk who had remained friendly to the English decided to fight on their side.
	www.madison.k12.wi.us /blackhawk/bio.htm (1135 words)

	The Story of Black Hawk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		So proclaimed Black Hawk in the spring of 1831, only a few days before he and his followers were forced to leave their home along Rock River forever.
		Though not a chief by birth, Black Hawk was the recognized leader of a political faction within the Sauk nation that believed in the old ways, the way of life that existed before Europeans came to America.
		Black Hawk was a tired, broken old man. The war had been a disaster and more than 1,000 of his people had died.
	www.blackhawkpark.org /bhw.htm (1313 words)

	Victory and De Soto, Wisconsin - history, pictures, events, attractions, shopping and more! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Black Hawk was a leader of the Sac and Mesquakie Indians in northern Illinois during the period of westward expansion into the newly opened Louisiana Purchase.
		Black Hawk's tribe was stopped by a gunboat and the army as he tried to cross the Mississippi, Black Hawk and his men came forward under a white flag.
		Black Hawk himself, captured and imprisoned, was paraded around the U.S. in chains; after he died his skeleton was displayed in the governor's mansion in Iowa, like a trophy.
	www.riverroads.com /states/wisc/wi4/wi4.html (774 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans
		Black Hawk was the son of a medicine man and was born in the Sac Indian village of Saukenuk, located near present-day Rock Island, Ill. The village was on the Rock River and was considered an abundant paradise to those who lived there.
		Black Hawk later was taken to Washington, D.C., where he met and gained the respect of President Andrew Jackson, and then was paraded before curious whites in Eastern cities before being set free in August 1833.
		Black Hawk lived his later years in a village on the Iowa River before moving to a lodge on the Des Moines River near Eldon.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/blackhawk.html (323 words)

	Black Hawk
		Black Hawk is a historical adventure based on the life and times of Chief Black Hawk, the great Sauk war chief who was the last great fighting chief of the eastern Indian nations.
		Black Hawk was growing angry now as his thoughts turned toward the killers of his father.
		Black Hawk had shown, time and again, that he was a shrewd and brilliant tactician.
	www.authorhouse.com /Bookstore/ItemDetail~bookid~7738.aspx (922 words)

	The Story of Corn Resources - Introduction to Black Hawk's Narrative
		Black Hawk, the famous war chief of the Sauk tribe, was born in 1767.
		When Black Hawk refused to leave his village in the spring of 1831, the U.S. army was called in to move him across the Mississippi to Iowa.
		Black Hawk's Narrative of the Yearly Cycle of the Sauk and Mesquakie Tribes is just a part of the memories of Black Hawk.
	www.campsilos.org /mod3/teachers/r1.shtml (548 words)

	IA DNR: State Parks
		Chief Black Hawk and 2,000 of his followers refused to move and the "Black Hawk War" resulted.
		In 1838, the chief died and was buried in a sitting position facing southeast near Iowaville on the Des Moines River.
		Chief Black Hawk's legacy lives on in such places as Black Hawk Lake and as the namesake for Black Hawk County, Iowa.
	www.iowadnr.com /parks/state_park_list/black_hawk.html (550 words)

	Lincoln/Net: Lincoln's Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Black Hawk had fought with the British in the War of 1812, hoping to upend Americans' relentless westward expansion into his tribes' lands.
		Black Hawk and other Native Americans vigorously disputed the treaty's authenticity, arguing that the Indians who signed were not authorized to do so.
		Realizing the gravity of his situation, Black Hawk attempted to return to Iowa, but was unable to do so before American troops caught his party on the banks of the Mississippi and slaughtered them in the Battle of Bad Axe.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /blackhawk/gal/blackhawk1.html (246 words)

	The Black Hawk War - Wisconsin Historical Society
		Black Hawk believed that the 1804 treaty was fraudulent, that his Ho-Chunk neighbors would join him in fighting the Americans if necessary, and in the event of full-scale war the British would also come to his aid.
		Black Hawk, after the rebuke of his council on the night of August 1, left his followers and surrendered to authorities at Fort Crawford.
		Black Hawk later dictated his autobiography, which includes an eloquent defense of his actions and an articulate statement of the case against U.S. aggression (a link to it is provided below).
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /turningpoints/tp-012/?action=more_essay (1191 words)

	The Great Native American Chiefs - Black Hawk
		Black Hawk, chief of the Sauk, was born in 1767 in northwestern Illinois, where he gained early fame for the expeditions he led against the Cherokee and Osage tribes.
		In the War of 1812 Black Hawk took sides with the British, after repudiating a treaty in which his people lost all their lands east of the Mississippi River.
		After the war, the defeated Black hawk led his people back to the West, where he eventually tried to form a confederation of indians against the white invaders; Black Hawk's War of 1832 resulted in a great slaughter of the tribes.
	nativeamericanrhymes.com /chiefs/blackhawk2.htm (143 words)

	Black Hawk War of 1832
		By James Lewis, Ph.D. In May of 1832 Sac and Fox Indians under the leadership of Black Hawk left the Iowa territory and returned to their homes across the Mississippi River in northern Illinois.
		Both the militia and regular army troops proved unable to locate the elusive Indians at first, but by July they had begun to pursue Black Hawk's band across northern Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin, engaging them in a major conflict at Wisconsin Heights before finally routing the Indians at Bad Axe on the Mississippi River.
		It is a part of the larger Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project and its attempts to use the events of Lincoln's life as a lens through which to interpret and understand broader themes of antebellum American history.
	lincoln.lib.niu.edu /blackhawk/index.html (218 words)

	Chief Blackhawk, Illinois State Military Museum, Illinois National Guard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Black Hawk was born in 1761 on the banks of the Rock River to the Sauk Indian tribe.
		Black Hawk attempted to regain his homeland in the fall of 1830, but was forced by the Illinois Militia to retreat across the Mississippi River.
		Black Hawk died in October 1838 on a reservation on the Des Moines River in Davis County, Iowa.
	www.il.ngb.army.mil /Museum/HistPeople/ChiefBlackhawk.htm (259 words)

	www.riverroads.com - Your online guide to the Great River Road and Mississippi River. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Black Hawk, who's full name was Black Sparrow Hawk, was born in 1767, at Saukenauk an area three to five miles north of where the Rock River in Illinois meets the Mississippi River
		Black Hawk surrendered to officials at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien.
		Black Hawk died on October 3, 1838, of a respiratory illness.
	www.riverroads.com /grr/blackhawk.html (823 words)

	Chicago History: The Black Hawk War
		One year later in 1832, a group led by Chief Black Hawk returned to the land where they were born but now it wasn't just a small army; it was an army of about 700 Sauk and Fox Indians.
		Chief Black Hawk died in 1838 at the age of 71.
		Chief Black Hawk was the last Native American to resist the white settlement in Illinois.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0215480/blackhawkwar.htm (535 words)

	Black Hawk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Black Hawk, whose full name was Black Sparrow Hawk, was born in 1767.
		Black Hawk fought on the side of the British in the War of 1812.
		Black Hawk led a group of Sauk and Fox Indians against the whites in the Black Hawk War of 1832.
	www.palos118.org /south/illinois/chief (256 words)

	Black Hawk War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Black Hawk Indian War was the longest and most destructive conflict between pioneer immigrants and Native Americans in Utah History.
		Naturally, scores of hungry warriors and their families flocked to eat "Mormon beef" and to support Black Hawk, who was suddenly hailed as a war chief.
		The Black Hawk War erupted as a result of the pressures white expansion brought to Native American populations.
	historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/american_indians/blackhawkwar.html (631 words)

	Black Hawk - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Black Hawk - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Black Hawk (1767-1838), chief of the Sac, or Sauk, Native Americans.
		Black Hawk, Remark (quotations): Native Americans: His heart is dead, and no longer beats…
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Black_Hawk.html (115 words)

	Lincoln/Net: Lesson Plans: The Anti-Slavery Movement
		This passage is taken from Chief Black Hawk's autobiography, written in 1833 (one year after the Black Hawk War took place) with the aid of a translator.
		Black Hawk, would come to see him; he wished to hold council with him, as he had given up all intention of going to war."
		They replied that the first party of three who went out to meet the American war chief, had all been taken prisoners and killed in the encampment, and that out of a party of five, who followed to see the meeting of the first party with the whites, two had been killed.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /teachers/blackhawk.html (1477 words)

	USS BLACK HAWK's Crest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The stylized fl hawk reflects the continuous aggressiveness of the Black Hawk and its crew in carrying out their mission of minehunting, fueling, repairing and keeping combatant vessels in fighting trim.
		The name Black Hawk was derived from Indian Chief Black Hawk mentioned in history as the leader of the Sac and Fox tribes during the Black Hawk war.
		The star on the hawk's wing is commemorative of the battle star received by the Second Black Hawk for her service in World War II.
	www.blackhawk.navy.mil /crest.htm (244 words)

	1832: Black Hawk War - Bensonwiki
		The Black Hawk War began on April 6 after Black Hawk and the Sac cross the Mississippi River and begin to plant in what was formerly Sac land (given up in the treaty on 1804).
		The settlers mistakenly killed an Indian that was holding a truce flag, and Black Hawk, the chief of the Sac became enraged.
		There is also speculation by the troops that Black Hawk is planning to flee, with the intent to cross the Mississippi River.
	alpha.furman.edu /~corth/wiki/mediawiki-1.3.9/index.php?title=1832:_Black_Hawk_War (297 words)

	How the Black Hawk War in Utah Started 1865 blackhawkwarutah.com
		Chief Yene-wood being dishonored before his people saw it as the final blow of a long endurance of insults and depredations over nearly 30 years that rallied the Utes under the leadership of Chief Black Hawk to declare war against the Mormons.
		The Chief, Black Hawk told Charles Whitlock of Ephriam, the same thing as had been told me concerning the intention of the Indians.
		Understanding the political and economic situation, in 1865 one of the most brilliant leaders of the time, leader Black Hawk commanded a formidable counter attack against all odds and held back white expansion into southern Utah for nearly a decade.
	www.blackhawkwarutah.com /beginsblackhawkwar.htm (2103 words)

	Army Fact File - Blackhawk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The UH 60 Black Hawk is a utility tactical transport helicopter that replaces the UH-1 "Huey".
		The versatile Black Hawk has enhanced the overall mobility of The Army, due to dramatic improvements in troop capacity and cargo lift capability, and will serve as The Army's utility helicopter in the Objective Force.
		The Black Hawk can reposition a 105 mm Howitzer, its crew of six, and lift up to 30 rounds of ammunition in a single lift.
	www.army.mil /fact_files_site/blackhawk/index.html (184 words)

	Black Hawk (chief) Summary
		A Native American war chief, Black Hawk (1767-1838) led his people, the Sauk, in a noble fight to preserve their tribal lands in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Missouri.
		Black Hawk(Makataimeshekiakiak) (1767 – October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe in what is now the United States.
		In the essay that follows, Sweet discusses the role of Native American masculine identity in the autobiography of Black Hawk, a Sauk warrior who was defeated by the U. army in 1832.
	www.bookrags.com /Black_Hawk_(chief) (183 words)

	Ma-ca-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
		In the year 1767, in the village of Saukenuk, located a few miles north of the confluence of the Rock River with the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois, a child was born.
		This was Ma-ca-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, which means "Black Sparrow Hawk" in the Algonquin language of the Sauk.
		At this early age, Black Hawk had become a Sauk warrior.
	members.tripod.com /~RFester/bhawk.html (713 words)

	Untitled
		Chief Black Hawk (17671838) of the Sauk, or Sac, was an opponent of United States expansion into his nation's territory.
		The great chief at St. Louis having sent word for us to go down and confirm the treaty of peace, we did not hesitate, but started immediately, that we might smoke the peacepipe with him.
		The chiefs and old warriors, take seats on mats which have been spread at the upper end of the square-the drummers and singers come next, and the braves and women form the sides, leaving a large space in the middle.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/blackhawk.html (2336 words)

	John Morrell - Rath Black Hawk Brand. Bacon, smoked sausage, cold cuts/lunch meat, hot dogs, franks and boneless hams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rath Black Hawk provides families with great tasting meat products with a full line of processed meat items like hot dogs, bacon, smoked sausage, and cold cuts.
		The Rath Black Hawk logo featuring the headdress of Chief Black Hawk is highly recognized in the state of Texas.
		Rath Black Hawk represents the highest quality and the taste is a cut above the best.
	www.johnmorrell.com /rathblackhawk.shtml (94 words)

	Grand Master Chief Black Hawk Sancarlos
		Apache, Mohawk Mayan, Indio (the Black Indian) are some of the names associated with this full blooded Native American.
		He was taught discipline at a very young age under the tutelage of Grand Master Chief Oscar Addamson and Master Joseph Wong who were both visually impaired.
		He later opened the "Son of the Seven Samurai", in a Bronx church where he instructed Billy T Taylor, Happy Bernard aka (Black Belt Jones), Jimmy Monroe and the twin dragons Jeff and Jerry Monroe - (founders of the Magnificent Thirteen - known today as the Guardan Angels).
	www.angelfire.com /art/TRDsystem/hawk.html (397 words)

	Native Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Black Hawk, a Sauk chief, lent his name to the frontier war that gave Abraham Lincoln his one experience in soldiering.
		During the War of 1812, Black Hawk (whose Indian name was Makataimeshekiakiak) fought for the British under the leadership of the famous Tecumseh.
		On August 2, 1832, the Indians were overwhelmed at Bad Axe River, Wisconsin, and Black Hawk was taken prisoner.
	www.npg.si.edu /col/native/blkhwk.htm (227 words)

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