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Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak / dictated by himself ; edited with an introduction and notes by J. Gerald Kennedy ; assisted by Anthony Hoefer.

Title
Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak / dictated by himself ; edited with an introduction and notes by J. Gerald Kennedy ; assisted by Anthony Hoefer.
Author
Black Hawk (Sauk chief), 1767-1838
Publication
New York : Penguin Books, 2008.

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Additional Authors
Kennedy, J. Gerald
Description
xxxiv, 108 p. : map; 20 cm.
Summary
Presents the transcribed autobiography of Black Hawk, a Sauk leader who struggled against white encroachment on his people's lands in western Illinois in the 1800s before his defeat at the Battle of Bad Axe in 1832, and includes a map of the Black Hawk War of the same year.
Series Statement
Penguin classics
Uniform Title
Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk
Alternative Title
Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk
Subject
  • Black Hawk (Sauk chief), 1767-1838
  • 1832
  • Black Hawk War, 1832
  • Sauk Indians (Algonquian) > Biography
  • Sauk Indians (Algonquian) > History
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]-xxx).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780143105398
  • 0143105396
LCCN
^^2008008669
OCLC
213358035
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library