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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Battle of Fort Dearborn, Black Hawk (Sauk leader), Camp Dubois, Center for American Archeology, Charlotina, Credit Island, Dixon Springs State Park, Fort Armstrong, Illinois, Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site, Fort Snelling, Goshen Road, Goshen Settlement, Grand Village of the Illinois, Harpe brothers, Illinois-Wabash Company, Illinois Country, Illinois Territory in the War of 1812, Isaac White, List of commandants of the Illinois Country, Little Rock Village, Louis Jolliet, Lusk's Ferry, Illinois, Lusk's Ferry Road, Michel Aco, Military Tract of 1812, Mississippi Land Company, Nanfan Treaty, Philip Francois Renault, Pierre Dugue de Boisbriand, Treaties of Portage des Sioux, Treaty of Chicago, Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762), Victor Collot, William M'Intosh (fur trader). Excerpt: Black Hawk (1767 October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the United States. Although he had inherited an important historic medicine bundle, he was not one of the Sauk's hereditary civil chiefs. His status came from leading war parties as a young man, and from his leadership of a band of Sauks during the Black Hawk War of 1832. During the War of 1812, Black Hawk fought on the side of the British. Later he led a band of Sauk and Fox warriors, known as the British Band, against European-American settlers in Illinois and present-day Wisconsin in the 1832 Black Hawk War. After the war, he was captured and taken to the eastern U.S., where he and other leaders toured several cities. Black Hawk died in 1838 in what is now southeastern Iowa. He left behind an enduring legacy through many eponyms and other tributes. Black Hawk, or Black Sparrow Hawk (Sauk Makataimeshekiakiak, "be a large black hawk") was born in the village of Saukenuk on the Rock River, in present-day Rock Island, Illinois, in 1767. Black Hawk's father Pyesa was the tribal medicine man of the Sauk people. The Sauk people used the village in the summer for raising corn and as a burial site, while moving across the Mississippi for winter hunts and fur trapping. Little is known about Black Hawk's youth. He was said to be a descendant of Nanamakee (Thunder), a Sauk chief who, according to tradition, met an early French explorer, possibly Samuel de Champlain. At age 15, Black Hawk accompanied his father Pyesa on a raid against the Osages, and won the approval of his father by killing and scalping his first enemy. The young Black Hawk then tried to establish himself as a war captain by leading other raids, but met with limited success until, at age 19, he led 200 men in a battle against the Osages, in which he personally killed five men and one woman. Soon after, he joined his father in a raid against Cherokees along the Meramec River in Missouri. After Pyesa
