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The Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk

by Black Hawk

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1833
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Dictated in 1833, a year after the war that bears his name, this is the life story of the Sauk leader Black Hawk, told through an interpreter to a frontier newspaper editor. Black Hawk recounts his boyhood and rise as a warrior, the customs and beliefs of his people, and the loss of Sauk land east of the Mississippi through treaties he considered fraudulent. Much of the account centers on the 1832 conflict in which he led families back to their homeland and was pursued, defeated, and captured by American forces. His voice is direct and grieving, at once a defense of his choices and an early Native American answer to the version of events written by the settlers.

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Black Hawk (1767-1838), or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, was a war leader of the Sauk nation in what is now Illinois. He resisted American expansion onto his people's lands, led the 1832 Black Hawk War, and afterward dictated the first widely read Native American autobiography.

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First published
1833
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
159
Language
English
Genre
Memoir
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