Black Hawk Biography
- Becoming a warrior
- The white enemy
- The Black Hawk War
- At the crossroads of history
- Prisoner of war
- For More Information
Born c. 1767
Saukenuk, Virginia Colony
(present-day Rock Island, Illinois)
Died October 3, 1838
Iowaville, Iowa
Native American resistance leader and warrior
"I fought hard, but your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew.... My warriors fell around me; it began to look dismal. I saw my evil day at hand."
Black Hawk was a powerful leader of the Sauk (also called Sac) and Fox American Indians located in northwestern Illinois and southern Wisconsin in the early nineteenth century. Black...
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