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  2. Black Hawk (Sauk leader) - Wikipedia

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    Black Hawk earned his status as a war chief or captain by his actions: leading raiding and war parties as a young man and then a band of Sauk warriors during the Black Hawk War of 1832. During the War of 1812 , Black Hawk fought on the side of the British against the US in the hope of pushing white American settlers away from Sauk territory.

  3. Keokuk (Sauk leader) - Wikipedia

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    Keokuk was born around 1780 on the Rock River in what soon became Illinois Territory to a Sauk warrior of the Fox clan and his wife of mixed lineage. [4] [5] He lived in a village near what became Peoria, Illinois on the Illinois River, and although not of the traditional ruling elite, was elected to the tribal council as a young man.

  4. Grace Thorpe - Wikipedia

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    Her tribal heritage included Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and Menominee ancestry, and she was a direct descendant of Sac and Fox chief Black Hawk. [4] She was born in Yale, Oklahoma in the only house her father ever owned. Now a museum, it is fondly known as the “Jim Thorpe House” and can be visited by tourists year round. [5]

  5. List of fictional Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    He is the son of the Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk. Adam Beach [citation needed] Elk Woman The wife of Black Hawk and the sister-in-law of Living Woman. Q'orianka Kilcher [citation needed] Little Bear He is the son of Black Hawk and Elk Woman. Xavier Horsechief [citation needed] Living Woman She is the sister of Black Hawk and the daughter of ...

  6. John Dement - Wikipedia

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    This portrait of Dement was published in Frank Stevens' 1903 book The Black Hawk War. Dement's political career was put on hold by the start of the 1832 Black Hawk War, which pitted the Illinois and Michigan Territory Militias against Sauk Chief Black Hawk and his band of warriors. Dement served in three separate capacities during the conflict ...

  7. Wabokieshiek - Wikipedia

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    Wabokieshiek (translated White Cloud, The Light or White Sky Light in English [1]) (c. 1794 – c. 1841) was a Native American army commander of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) and Sauk tribes in 19th century Illinois, playing a key role in the Black Hawk War of 1832. Known as a medicine man and prophet, he is sometimes called the Winnebago Prophet.

  8. Black Hawk Tree - Wikipedia

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    A 1915 postcard of the Black Hawk Tree. The Black Hawk Tree, or Black Hawk's Tree, was a cottonwood [1] tree located in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, United States.Local legend held that Sauk leader Black Hawk used it to elude his pursuers, though there are differing details and versions of the story.

  9. Wapasha II - Wikipedia

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    Wabasha II (c. 1773–1836), also known as Wapahasha, Wapasha, or "The Leaf," succeeded his father as head chief of the Mdewakanton Dakota tribe in the early 1800s. [1] [2] He led the Dakota forces fighting with the British in the War of 1812, but sided with the United States in the Black Hawk War of 1832.