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    AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK,
    OR BLACK HAWK,

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    By Black Hawk

    AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK, OR BLACK HAWK, EMBRACING THE TRADITIONS OF HIS NATION, VARIOUS WARS IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN ENGAGED, AND HIS ACCOUNT OF THE CAUSE AND GENERAL HISTORY OF THE BLACK HAWK WAR OF , His

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    Black Hawk (Sauk leader)

    American Indian tribal leader (–)

    Black Hawk

    Portrait by George Catlin,

    Born

    Mu-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak


    c.

    Saukenuk, Illinois Country, British America
    (modern-day Rock Island, Illinois, U.S.)

    DiedOctober 3, () (aged&#;70–71)

    Davis County, Iowa, U.S.

    MonumentsBlack Hawk Statue, Black Hawk State Historic Site
    NationalitySauk
    Other&#;namesBlack Sparrow Hawk
    OccupationChieftain
    Known&#;forBlack Hawk War

    Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (Sauk: Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa) (c. – October 3, ), was 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

    During the War of ,

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    Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (aka Black Hawk)

    War Chief: Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (aka Black Hawk)

    Born: in Saukenuk, Illinois

    Died: October 3rd in Davis County, Iowa

    Nationality:  oθaakiiwaki (Sauk)

    Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak [Mahkate:wi-meši-ke:hke:hkwa] means "be a large black hawk"

    Black Hawk was a war chief and leader of the Sauk tribe in the Midwest of the United States. He was known more for being a war leader, a “captain of his actions” than he was a tribal ledare. Black Hawk earned his credentials bygd leading raids and war parties in his ungdom. The War of consisted of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against the United States where part of it took place around the Great Lakes area. An undeterred Black Hawk and his group of about warriors were allies for the British, and they fought against the U.S. army. It was Black Hawk’s wish to push vit settlers away from his people in the Sauk territory. Saddened by the many lives that were lost d