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The Black Hawk State Historic Site, in Rock Island, Illinois, is adjacent to the historic site of the village of Saukenuk, the home of a band of Native Americans of the Sauk nation. It includes the John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life. The state park is located on a 150 feet (50 m) bluff overlooking the Rock River in western Illinois
Black Hawk Museum and Lodge is a historic building located in the Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. The lodge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is a part of the Illinois State Park Lodges and Cabins Thematic Resources.
John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life is located in the Black Hawk Museum and Lodge at Black Hawk State Historic Site in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. The museum is in a historic building that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It is part of the Illinois State Park Lodges and Cabins Thematic Resources.
The Black Hawk War, (May 1832 to September 1832) named after the Sauk Chief Black Hawk, was a result of rising tensions between Native Americans in the greater territory areas of Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois. As British and Spanish influenced waned, the United States started to expand.
Blackhawk Township is located in Rock Island County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 10,019 and it contained 4,563 housing units. [2] Blackhawk Township changed its name from Camden County on October 1, 1857. Quad City International Airport is partially within the township.
Black Hawk, or Black Sparrow Hawk (Sauk Ma-kat-tai-me-she-kia-kiak [Mahkate:wi-meši-ke:hke:hkwa], "be a large black hawk") [1] was born in about 1767 in the village of Saukenuk on the Rock River (present-day Rock Island, Illinois). [2]: p.13 Black Hawk's father Pyesa was the tribal medicine man of the Sauk people. [3]
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Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. [2] The population was 37,108 at the 2020 census. [3] Located at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, it is one of the Quad Cities along with neighboring Moline and East Moline in Illinois and the cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa.