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Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak: Dictated by Himself

By J. Gerald , Sauk chief Black Hawk;Kennedy

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2008
ISBN
9780143105398, 0143105396
Language
english
Format
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Filesize
322 kB (330192 bytes)
Series
Penguin classics
Pages
xxxiv, 108 pages : map ; 20 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1767-1838;Sauk Indians -- Biography;Sauk Indian-- Sauk chief1832;Sauk Indians;History;Autobiographies;BiographBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage;Sauk

Description

Presents the transcribed autobiography of Black Hawk, a Sauk leader who struggled against white encroachment on his people's lands in western Illinois in the 1800s before his defeat at the Battle of Bad Axe in 1832, and includes a map of the Black Hawk War of the same year.

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