50 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Black Hawk — Contioued. 



Copies seen: Boston Athenaeum, Dunbar, 

 Pilling, Wisconsin Historical Society. 



Some copies -with title as above have the 

 imprint Boston, 1834. (Congress, Dunbar.) 



Life 1 of I Black Hawk, | or | Ma-ka- 



tai-me-she-kia-kiak, | embracing the | 

 Tradition of his Nation — Indian Wars 

 in which he has been | engaged — Cause 

 of joining the British in their late War 

 I with America, and its History — | De- 

 scription of the Rock-river Village — 

 Manners and Customs — | Encroach- 

 ments by the Whites, contrary to Trea- 

 ty—^ I Removal from his Village in 1831: 

 j with an | account of the cause and 

 general history | of the | late war, | His 

 Surrender and Confinement at Jefferson 

 Barracks, | and | travels through the 

 United States. | Dictated by himself. | 

 Edited by J. B. Patterson, of Rock Isl- 

 and, Illinois. I 



Loudon : | Richard James Kennett, | 

 14, York street. | 1836. 



Frontispiece 1 1. title verso printer 1 1. pref- 

 ace pp. iii-viii, certificate of interpreter verso 

 blank 1 1. dedication in Sac pp. v-vi, same in 

 English pp. vii-viii, advertisement pp. ix-xi, 

 text pp. 1-177, colophon unnumbered page verso 

 of p. 177, advertisement 2 11. 12°. 



Linguistics as under previous title, pp. v-viii. 



Copies seen : Shea. 



There is an edition with title-page as in the 

 edition of 1834 with the imprint Boston : | pub- 

 lished by Theodore Abbott. | 1845. (Astor, 

 Watkinson. ) 



— — Autobiography | of | Ma-ka-tai-me- 

 she-kia-kiak, | or | Black Hawk, | em- 

 bracing the traditions of his nation, 

 various wars in which he has | been en- 

 gaged, and his account of the cause and 

 I general history of the | Black Hawk 

 war of 1832, | His Surrender, and Trav- 

 els Through the United States. | Dic- 

 tated by himself. | Antoine LeClair, 

 U. S. Interpreter. | J. B. Patterson, Ed- 

 itor and Amanuensis. | Rock Island, Il- 

 linois, 1833. I Also I life, death and 

 burial of the old chief, together with 

 j A History of the Black Hawk War, 

 ] By J. B. Patterson, Oquawka, 111. 

 1882. 1 



[Continental printing co., St. Louis, 

 Mo., 1882.] 



Frontispiece, title verso copyright notice and 

 printers 1 1. dedication verso blank 1 1. affidavit 

 pp. v-vi, original dedication (in Sac) p. vii, trans- 

 lation of same into English p. viii, advertise- 



Black Hawk — Continued. 



ment pp. ix-x, text pp. 11-190, appendix pp. 

 191-208, 120. 



Dedication in the Sac language, p. vii. 

 Copies seen: Congress, Wisconsin Historical 

 Society. 



Black Hawk, a noted chief of the Sac and Fox 

 tribes of Indians, though by birth a Pottawat- 

 tamie, born at Kaskaskia, 111., in 1767; died at 

 his camp on the river Des Moines, 3 Oct., 1838, 

 At fifteen he was ranked with the braves, and be 

 came a successful leader in expeditions against 

 the Osage and Cherokee tribes. About 1788 he 

 succeeded, as head chief of the Sacs, his father, 

 who had been killed by a Cherokee. In 1804 

 the Sacs and Foxes signed at St. Louis a treaty 

 with G-en. Harrison, by which for an annuity of 

 $1,000 a year they transferred to the U. S. Gov- 

 ernment their lands, extending about 700 miles 

 along Mississippi River. This arrangement was 

 repudiated by Black Hawk, who averred that 

 the chiefs were drank when they signed the 

 treaty. Moved by the exhortations of the 

 Shawnee prophet Elskwatawa, brother of Te- 

 cumseh, and by the presents of British agents, 

 Black Hawk, with the title of general, joined 

 the British with 500 warriors during the war of 

 1812; but a repulse in a battle near Detroit, and 

 an unsuccessful attack on a fort, surprised 

 and disgusted the red men, who soon tired of 

 the service. The cession of their territory was 

 ratified by another treaty made in 1815, after 

 the conclusion of the war, and by a third treaty 

 which Black Hawk himself signed at St. Louis 

 in 1816. In 1823 the main body of the Sacs and 

 Foxes removed, under the lead of Chief Keokuk, 

 to their reservation across the Mississippi ; 

 but Black Hawk and his followers remained. 

 By the new treaty made at Prairie du Chien, 15 

 July, 1830, signed by chiefs of various tribes, 

 among them Keokuk, their lands east of the 

 Mississippi became the property of the whites. 

 Their removal west wasopposed by BlackHawk, 

 who, when the crops of his people were ploughed 

 up and the lands seized for the white settlers 

 who had purchased the sites of their villages, 

 threatened retaliation. The militia of Illinois 

 were then called oat, and on 25 June, 1831, a force 

 under &en. Gaines compelled the Indians to de- 

 part. Black Hawk returned in the spring across 

 the Mississippi. After a band of fifty war- 

 riors was attacked and scattered by the militia, 

 they separated into squads and began to mas- 

 sacre the whites. Gen. Scott marched a force of 

 U. S. troops against them, but was*hindered in 

 his operations by an outbreak of cholera among 

 the soldiers. The Indians were driven back to 

 Wisconsin River, where they sustained a de- 

 feat, inflicted by Gen. Dodge, on 21 July, 1832. 

 They were completely defeated at the river 

 I Bad Axe, 1 and 2 Aug., by Gen. Atkinson, and 

 the surrender of Black Hawk took place on the 

 j 27th. Black Hawk, his two sons, and seven 

 I other head warriors who were detained as hos- 

 1 tages were taken through the principal eastern 



