With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Black Hawk’s Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak is a classic of Native American literature reimagined for modern readers. “My reason ...
The story Black Hawk tells is a vivid one of life on the prairie, rich with tradition and meaning, but riven equally by war and bloodshed.
Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, (1767 - October 3, 1838) was a war leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the Midwest of the United States.
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 Sauk and Fox warriors against settlers in Illinois and present-day Wisconsin in the 1832 Black Hawk War.
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Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak Or Black Hawk
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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,...
Reproduction of the original: Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kiak, or Black Hawk by Black Hawk