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In questo libro per la prima volta un nativo americano ha raccontato la sua vita affidandola alla scrittura. Capo guerriero della tribù dei sauk, Black Hawk passò alla Storia per essere sceso in guerra contro il governo degli Stati Uniti e aver guidato la resistenza della sua gente. Combattuto contro forze nemiche soverchianti, il conflitto si concluse in un massacro per i sauk, Black Hawk fu catturato, portato nelle città dell'Est ed esibito ...

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Autobiography of early 19th century leader of the Sauk and Fox Indians. Describes tribal customs, traditions, Indian wars, more.

In 1833, near the end of his captivity, Black Hawk dictated his life story to an interpreter and this account, edited by a local reporter J. B. Patterson, was the first Native American autobiography to be published in the U.S. It immediately became a bestseller, going through many editions, and is reprinted from the 1882 edition which includes additional material by Patterson on the history of the Black Hawk War.

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A rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly adversarial account of frontier hostilities between white settlers and Native Americans. Black Hawk, a complex, contradictory figure, relates his life story and that of his people, who had been force...

Black Hawk or Black Sparrow Hawk (Sauk Makataimeshekiakiak) (1767-1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the United States. Although he had inherited an important historic medicine bundle, he was not a hereditary civil chief of the Sauk, but was an appointed war chief. He was generally known in English as Black Hawk. During the War of 1812, he fought on the side of the British. Later he led a band of Sa...