Black Hawk songs
By: Michael Borich
Edition: 40th anniversary edition.
Publisher: Ozarks University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Springfield, Mo.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780692686010
Subjects: Poetry; Sauk Indians (Algonquian); Kings and rulers; Indians of North America
Description: "The poems examine Black Hawk's transformation from boy to warrior to chief to defeated, embittered old man. They probe the conflicts he faced along the way ... In a larger sense, the poems are about the American Indian experience--of lost lands, men broken, tribes decimated. ... Michael Borich, who lives and teaches in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri, wrote the Black Hawk Songs in 1973. The first edition was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1975."--From book.