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Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (Sauk: Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa) (c. 1767 – October 3, 1838), was a Sauk leader and warrior who lived in what is now the Midwestern United States. Although he had inherited an important historic sacred bundle from his father, he was not a hereditary civil chief.
Articles defined by Black Hawk (Sauk leader), rather than things just named after him. Biography portal; Native Americans portal
[7] Black Hawk's resolve saved the lives of the bulk of Sauk and Fox present that day at Wisconsin Heights; the warriors fought with the militia while the majority of the civilians escaped, via rafts, across the Wisconsin River. [3] In the first volley of the battle, one of Black Hawk's warriors was killed instantly and one or two others wounded.
He headquartered there for eight years, leading troops against Native Americans in the Black Hawk War in 1832. (Black Hawk, the Sauk leader, surrendered in Prairie du Chien in August of that year.)
The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis (Fox), and Kickapoos, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, to the U.S. state of Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832.
In response, Gaines led troops to counter the forces of Sauk leader Black Hawk. [35] After defeating Black Hawk, Gaines conducted negotiations that resulted in a capitulation agreement by which Black Hawk agreed to return to Iowa. [35] Gaines commanded the Western Military Department during the 1832 Black Hawk War, but illness prevented him ...
The Battle of the Sink Hole, sometimes known as "Forgotten War", was fought on May 24, 1815, after the official end of the War of 1812, between Missouri Rangers and Sauk Indians led by Black Hawk. According to Robert McDouall , the British commander in the area, the Sauk had not received official word from the British that the Treaty of Ghent ...
At the time of the Black Hawk War the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield was a marshy area located in the hills along the Wisconsin River. [9] The battlefield is located within the Black Hawk Unit of the state managed and owned Lower Wisconsin State Riverway, along Highway 78, about a mile south of County Road Y, south of Sauk City.