190th Anniversary of the Black Hawk War

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Black Hawk was a Sauk warrier who resisted the growing presence of White settlers on tribal lands. The Sauk and Fox tribes had signed a treaty in 1804 ceding all their lands east of the Mississippi but Black Hawk faced off with a large army of US soldiers in protest.

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