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Black Hawk, 1767-1838:
The push westward, led by scouts like Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett and followed by settlers moving across the Appalachians, ran up against organized Indian resistance. By 1804, the Sac people had ceded their land to the government, but Black Hawk stirred his tribe to reclaim its territory. He led a long resistance to the United States, from fighting in the War of 1812, when he sided with the British, to his instigation of what is known as the Black Hawk War in 1832. Black Hawk brought on the conflict as a last-ditch effort to resist President Jackson's aggressive policy of Indian removal. He said, the cause of our making war... is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it." After a campaign of five months, Black Hawk was defeated at the Battle of Bad Axe.
George Catlin, c 1835 |