Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak: Dictated by Himself (Penguin Classics) | 
| Author: Black Hawk
Creator: J. Gerald Kennedy
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1009060
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0143105396
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.56092
EAN: 9780143105398
ASIN: 0143105396
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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Product Description
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 forced from western Illinois in what was known as the Black Hawk War. The first published account of a victim of the American war of extermination, this vivid portrait of Indian life stands as a tribute to the author and his extraordinary people, as well as an invaluable historical document.
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