Black Hawk (chief)

Black Hawk

Black Hawk (* 1767 in Sac Village , Rock River, Illinois ; † 3. October 1838 ; Sauk Makataimeshekiakiak , Black Hawk ) was a chief of Sauk- and Fox - Indians .

Life

Around 1788 Black Hawk succeeded his father as chief. When the Sauk and Fox ceded their land to the USA in 1804, he contradicted the fact that the chiefs were drunk and that the Americans had deceived the content of the treaty. Black Hawk took part in the British-American War of 1812 on the British side and was appointed "brevet Brigadier General" (honorary general).

When the Sauk and Fox began relocating to the other side of the Mississippi in the 1820s , he refused on the grounds that the treaty allowed the Sauk and Fox to remain in their land as long as it was owned by the American government. Since not all of the land has been sold to the settlers , he can stay that long. This resulted in the Black Hawk War in 1832. In the end, Black Hawk had to surrender on August 27, 1832 and was captured, but released about a year later.

The sale of the land resulted from the negotiations that followed. Although Black Hawk was not involved, this trade was called the Black Hawk Purchase .

After Black Hawk are also Black Hawk County , Iowa , the Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi between Iowa and Wisconsin , a prototype of a US attack helicopter, the Sikorsky S-67 , a variant of the Sikorsky UH-60 military multipurpose helicopter and the team the American professional ice hockey league NHL , the Chicago Blackhawks , as well as the predecessor of the Atlanta Hawks , the Tri-Cities Blackhawks in the basketball league NBA .

literature

• Ernie Hearting : Black Hawk. The story of a Sauk chief. Waldstatt Verlag, Einsiedeln, 1960.
• Roger L. Nichols: Black Hawk and the Warrior's Path. 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-119-10342-4 .

Web links

• Works by Black Hawk (chief) in Project Gutenberg ( currently not usually available for users from Germany ) : Autobiography (English)