black hawk

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Sauk leader. Resenting an 1804 treaty that ceded all Sauk and Fox lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States, he led 1,000 Fox and Sauk warriors in the Black Hawk War (1832). born 1767, Sauk Sautenuk, Va. died Oct. 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, Iowa, U.S. Sauk Indian leader. Long antagonistic to whites, Black Hawk was driven into Iowa from Illinois in 1831. Defying the government orders to vacate villages along the Rock River in Illinois, he led a faction of Sauk and Fox Indians back across the Mississippi River the following year. This act led to the brief but tragic Black Hawk War of 1832. He himself survived the final battle, a massacre. The ruthlessness of the war so affected neighbouring Indian groups that by 1837 most had fled far west, leaving most of the Northwest Territory to white settlers
Sauk leader who in 1832 led Fox and Sauk warriors against the United States (1767-1838)
Black Hawk War
series of battles in 1832 in Illinois and Wisconsin which ended in a massacre of the Sauk Indians by the white American settlers
black hawk

    Turkish pronunciation

    bläk hôk

    Pronunciation

    /ˈblak ˈhôk/ /ˈblæk ˈhɔːk/

    Etymology

    [ 'blak ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English blak, from Old English blæc; akin to Old High German blah black, and probably to Latin flagrare to burn, Greek phlegein.
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