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Title: Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk

Author: Black Hawk

Release Date: December, 2004 [EBook #7097]
Posting Date: March 24, 2009

Language: English

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK, OR BLACK HAWK,

By Black Hawk

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF

MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK,

OR

BLACK HAWK,

EMBRACING THE TRADITIONS OF HIS NATION, VARIOUS WARS
IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN ENGAGED, AND HIS ACCOUNT
OF THE CAUSE AND GENERAL HISTORY OF THE
BLACK HAWK WAR OF 1832,

His Surrender, and Travels Through the United States.

DICTATED BY HIMSELF.

ANTOINE LECLAIR, U. S. INTERPRETER.
J.B. PATTERSON, EDITOR AND AMANUENSIS.

ROCK ISLAND. ILLINOIS, 1833.

ALSO
LIFE, DEATH AND BURIAL OF THE OLD CHIEF, TOGETHER WITH
A History of the Black Hawk War,
By J.B. PATTERSON, OQUAWKA, ILL, 1882.

Copyrighted by J.B. PATTERSON, 1882.

AS A TOKEN OF HIGH REGARD,
I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME
TO MY FRIEND,
HON. BAILEY DAVENPORT,
OF ROCK ISLAND, ILL.

AFFIDAVIT.

DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS, SS. Be it remembered, that on this sixteenth
day of November, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-three, J.B.
Patterson, of said district, hath deposited in this office the title of
a Book, the title of which is in the words following, to wit:

"Life of Makataimeshekiakiak, or Black Hawk, embracing the Traditions 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
a