Useful Links
Chief Blackhawk Biography
https://www.visitnorthwestillinois.com/trip-ideas/meet-our-regions-namesake.html
Black Hawk: Myth and reality
https://cdn.citl.illinois.edu/courses/aiiopcmpss/BH-Myth/index.htm
Primary & Secondary Sources
Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak Or Black Hawk (autobiography)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Life_of_Ma_ka_tai_me_she_kia_kiak_Or_Bla/JpBOAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Black Hawk’s Surrender Speech (1832) https://ohiolink.oercommons.org/courseware/module/2463/student/47 Primary Source Spotlight: The Sauk & the Black Hawk War https://primarysourcenexus.org/2021/11/primary-source-spotlight-sauk-black-hawk-war/ Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk, and scenes in the West : a national poem in six cantos ... (1849) "Embracing an account of the life and exploits of this celebrated chieftain; the Black Hawk War; a legend of the Illinois tribe of Indians, showing the manner in which they became extinct; a succinct description of the Wisconsin and Lake Superior countries and their rich minerals; the massacre of Chicago; and other deeply interesting scenes in the West." https://archive.org/details/makataimeshekiak00smit/page/n15/mode/2up |