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Black Hawk   /blæk hɔk/   Listen
Black Hawk

noun
1.
Sauk leader who in 1832 led Fox and Sauk warriors against the United States (1767-1838).  Synonym: Makataimeshekiakiak.





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"Black Hawk" Quotes from Famous Books



... was known as Dixon's Ferry. Even when he was not an old man, Dixon was noted for his long and flowing white hair, and the Indians called him Na-chu-sa, "the White-haired." In 1832 the Sac tribe of Indians, with their chief Black Hawk, rose in rebellion against the Government, and then there happened what is now called ...
— The Boy Settlers - A Story of Early Times in Kansas • Noah Brooks


Words linked to "Black Hawk" :   Indian chieftain, Makataimeshekiakiak, sac, Sauk, Indian chief


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