26 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



am a, man and you are another." The party, after being duly impressed 

 with the number and resources of the whites, were released and returned 

 to Iowa in the summer of 1833. President Jackson told Black Hawk in 

 Baltimore, in June of that year, that he had ordered their return to 

 their own country, because " Sheckak, your principal chief, and the rest 

 of your people are anxious that you should return, and Keokuk has 

 asked me to send you back. When you go back, listen to the counsels 

 of Keokuk and the other friendly chiefs." Black Hawk and his band 

 returned to Iowa in August, 1833, where they were received by Keokuk 

 and the Sac and Fox Nation. 



August 5, 1833, the Sac and Fox nation assembled at Fort Arm- 

 strong. Major Garland appeared for the United States, and Black 

 Hawk was deposed and Keokuk, by authority of the President, was 

 installed as the principal chief of the Sac and Fox Nation. Gol. Will- 

 iam Davenport was also present and addressed the Indians. 



Mr. Catlin, who was present at the treaty of Rock Island, 111., in Sep- 

 tember, 1836, between Governor Dodge and the Sacs and Foxes, at 

 which Keokuk, Black Hawk, and the Prophet were present, describes 

 Black Hawk as follows: 



The poor dethroned monarch, old Black Hawk, was present, and looked an object of 

 pity. With an old frock coat and brown hat on, and a cane in his hand, he stood the 

 whole time outside of the group, and in dumb and dismal silence, with his sons by 

 the side of him, and also his quondam aide-de-camp, Nah-pope, and the Prophet. 

 They were not allowed to speak, nor even to sign the treaty. Nah-pope arose, how- 

 ever, and commenced a very earnest speech on the subject of temperance, but Gov- 

 ernor Dodge ordered him to sit down (as being out of order), which probably saved 

 him from a much more peremptory command from Keokuk, who was rising at that 

 moment, with looks on his face that the Devil himself might have shrunk from. (Page 

 217, vol. 2, Eight Years.) 



In 1837 he accompanied Keokuk to Washington, and was accorded a 

 place of dignity. 



After his return from the East with Keokuk, in 1837, Black Hawk, 

 in the fall of that year, resided on a small stream known as Devil Creek, 

 in Lee County, Iowa. With his wife, two sons, Nes-se-as-kuk (No. 3), 

 .and Na-som-see (Wa-saw-we-saw No. 4) and his daughter, Nam-e-qua, 

 the handsomest of Sac maidens. 



' In the spring of 1838, with his family, he removed to the vicinity of 

 the other Sac and Fox chiefs on the Des Moines Eiver, near Iowaville, in 

 Davis County. He had a comfortable cabin like a white man's, well 

 furnished, and in his garden cultivated vegetables. Black Hawk never 

 had but one wife, a very unusual thing with an Indian at that time. 



On the 4th of July, 1838, Black Hawk was a guest of the citizens at 

 Fort Madison, and upon being toasted made, through interpreters, an 

 eloquent reply. 



In stature Black Hawk was 5 feet 11 inches in his moccasins. His 

 weight 138 pounds. So that he was tall and thin. His head was finely 



