Black Hawk

Black Hawk
Author: Kerry A. Trask
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 0805077588

"Longing for the life they has lost, Black Hawk and his followers, including more than six hundred warriors, rose up in a rage in the spring of 1832, and defiantly crossed the Mississippi from Iowa to Illinois in order to reclaim their ancestral home. Though the war lasted only three months, no other violent encounter between white America and native people embodies so clearly the essence of the United States' inner conflict between its belief in freedom and human rights and its insatiable appetite for new territory.".

The Black Hawk War of 1832

The Black Hawk War of 1832
Author: Patrick J. Jung
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806139944

In 1832, facing white expansion, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk attempted to forge a pan-Indian alliance to preserve the homelands of the confederated Sauk and Fox tribes on the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Here, Patrick J. Jung re-examines the causes, course, and consequences of the ensuing war with the United States, a conflict that decimated Black Hawk's band. Correcting mistakes that plagued previous histories, and drawing on recent ethnohistorical interpretations, Jung shows that the outcome can be understood only by discussing the complexity of intertribal rivalry, military ineptitude, and racial dynamics.

The Second Creek War

The Second Creek War
Author: John T. Ellisor
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2020-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 149621708X

Historians have traditionally viewed the Creek War of 1836 as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that in fact the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after peace was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west. Ellisor’s study also broadly illuminates southern society just before the Indian removals, a time when many blacks, whites, and Natives lived in close proximity in the Old Southwest. In the Creek country, also called New Alabama, these ethnic groups began to develop a pluralistic society. When the 1830s cotton boom placed a premium on Creek land, however, dispossession of the Natives became an economic priority. Dispossessed and impoverished, some Creeks rose in armed revolt both to resist removal west and to drive the oppressors from their ancient homeland. Yet the resulting Second Creek War that raged over three states was fueled both by Native determination and by economic competition and was intensified not least by the massive government-sponsored land grab that constituted Indian removal. Because these circumstances also created fissures throughout southern society, both whites and blacks found it in their best interests to help the Creek insurgents. This first book-length examination of the Second Creek War shows how interethnic collusion and conflict characterized southern society during the 1830s.

The Black Hawk War

The Black Hawk War
Author: Frank Everett Stevens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1903
Genre: Black Hawk War, 1832
ISBN:

The Black Hawk War, 1831-1832

The Black Hawk War, 1831-1832
Author: Ellen M. Whitney
Publisher: Illinois State Historical Society
Total Pages: 738
Release: 1970
Genre: Black Hawk War, 1832
ISBN:

A Century of Dishonor

A Century of Dishonor
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1885
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: