Life of Black Hawk

Life of Black Hawk
Author: Chief Sauk Black Hawk
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2009-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429022310

Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk

Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
Author: Benjamin Drake
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN:

Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk is the biography of 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. 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.

Smoothing the Ground

Smoothing the Ground
Author: Brian Swann
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1983
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520049130

A compilation of essays and translations in which leading scholars in the fields of linguistics, folklore, ethnopoetics and literary criticism discuss the continuing American Indian oral tradition as literature. Native Americans invested the spoken word with reverence and power, and the oral literature that resulted from the fusing of language and event into vital force is extraordinarily rich and potent. Authors such as Dell Hymes, Karl Kroeber, Dennis Tedlock, Jarold Ramsey and John Bierhorst address the many aspects of the study of this literature, from the problem of translation and of the role of the literary critic to the interpretation of specific stories. ISBN 0-520-04902-0 : $12.95.

Black Hawk and the Warrior's Path

Black Hawk and the Warrior's Path
Author: Roger L. Nichols
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2017-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1119103401

Completely updated and expanded, Black Hawk and the Warrior's Path is a masterful account of the life of the Sauk warrior and leader, and his impact on the history of early America. The period between 1760 and 1840 is brought to life through vivid discussion of Native American society and traditions, Western frontier expansion, and US-Native American politics and conflicts Updates include: 1 new map, 8 new images, a revised bibliographic essay incorporating the latest research, a timeline, and 8 concise, reorganized chapters with key terms and study questions Accessibly written by a noted expert in the field, students will understand key themes and find meaningful connections among historical events in Native American and 18th century American history

The Great Indian Chief of the West, Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk

The Great Indian Chief of the West, Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
Author: Benjamin Drake
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1856
Genre: Black Hawk War, 1832
ISBN:

In the preface to The Great Indian Chief of the West: Or Life and Adventures of Black Hawk, Benjamin Drake shared with the reader the hope that his book might "contribute to awaken the public mind to a sense of the wrongs inflicted upon the Indians, and to arouse the Christian statesmen of this land to the adoption of a more liberal, upright and benevolent course of policy towards them." Of course, that benevolent course of policy was never adopted. Between the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, numerous wars, campaigns, and massacres took place west of the Mississippi. Benjamin Drake first published this excellent history on Black Hawk and the war named after him just six years after that war ended.