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Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
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Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak

Author: Black Hawk, Sauk chief; J Gerald Kennedy
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
Series: Penguin classics.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Presents the transcribed autobiography of Black Hawk, a Sauk leader who struggled against white encroachment on his people's lands in western Illinois in the 1800s before his defeat at the Battle of Bad Axe in 1832, and includes a map of the Black Hawk War of the same year.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Black Hawk, Sauk chief
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Black Hawk, Sauk chief; J Gerald Kennedy
ISBN: 9780143105398 0143105396
OCLC Number: 213358035
Description: xxxiv, 108 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Series Title: Penguin classics.
Other Titles: Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk
Responsibility: dictated by himself ; edited with an introduction and notes by J. Gerald Kennedy ; assisted by Anthony Hoefer.
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Presents the transcribed autobiography of Black Hawk, a Sauk leader who struggled against white encroachment on his people's lands in western Illinois in the 1800s before his defeat at the Battle of Bad Axe in 1832, and includes a map of the Black Hawk War of the same year.

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