Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk
Subtitle: embracing the tradition of his nation--Indian wars in which he has been engaged--cause of joining the British in their late war with America, and its history--description of the Rock-River village--manners and customs--encroachments by the Whites, contrary to treaty--removal from his village in 1831. : 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
By: Dictated by himself. ; J.B. Patterson, of Rock Island, Ill., editor and proprietor
Contributors: Patterson, J. B. (John Barton), 1805-1890, editor; LeClair, Antoine, 1797-1861; Pendleton, William S., 1795-1879, illustrator
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Portraits; Sauk Indians (Algonquian); Fox Indians; Indians of North America; Wars; Biography; Black Hawk War, 1832; Sauk; Fox; Peuples autochtones; Guerres; Black Hawk, Guerre de, 1832
Notes: "The editor has written this work according to the dictation of Black Hawk, through the United States' interpreter, at the Sac and Fox Agency of Rock Island."--Advertisement, p. 11. The interpreter is Antoine LeClair.

Frontispiece portrait of Black Hawk signed: Pendleton, Boston.

Illinois district copyright Nov. 16, 1833 by J.B. Patterson, "the right whereof he claims as author."

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