ng country--Civil polity
of the Sacs and Foxes--Legend about their chiefs--Division of
the tribes into families--Mode of burying their dead--Idea of a future
state--Their account of the creation of the world--Marriages--Social
relations--Music and musical instruments--Pike's visit to
them in 1805--Population--Character for courage 13

CHAPTER II.

Treaty with the Sac and Fox Indians in 1789--treaty and cession of
land to the United States at St. Louis in 1804--Black Hawk's account
of this treaty--Erection of Fort Madison--The British excite
the Sac and Fox Indians to make war upon the United States--A
party under Black Hawk join the British standard in 1812--Treaty at
Portage des Sioux in 1815--Treaty of peace with Black Hawk and his
band at same place in 1816--Treaty for part of their lands in Missouri
in 1824--Treaty of Prairie des Chiens in 1825--Treaty for the mineral
region in 1829--Treaty of peace in 1832, after the "Black
Hawk war"--Present residence of the Sacs and Foxes 49

CHAPTER III.

Birth of Black Hawk--Early adventures--Battles with the Osages and
Cherokees--Death of his father--Interview with Lieutenant Pike--Attack
upon Fort Madison--Joins the British in the late war--Marches
to lake Erie--Returns home after the attack upon Fort
Stephenson--Murder of his adopted son--Battle of the Sink-hole near
Cap au Gris--Treaty of peace at Portage des Sioux in 1816 74

CHAPTER IV.

Building of Fort Armstrong--The good Spirit of Rock Island--Death
of Black Hawk's children--Young Sac offers to die in place of his
brother--Black Hawk's visit to Malden--Whipped by some whites--Whites
settle at his village--Black Hawk's talk with Governor Coles
and Judge Hall--Sale of the lands on Rock river--Indians ordered to
remove--Agreement to remove for six thousand dollars--Memorial of
the white settlers to Governor Reynolds--The Governor's letters to
General Clark and General Gaines--The latter leaves Jefferson Barracks
with six companies of the United States troops for Rock Island--His
interview with Black Hawk--Calls upon the Governor of Illinois
for militia--The Indians abandon their village--treaty of peace made
with them--Official letters to the war department--Summary of the
causes which brought on this disturbance--Black Hawk's attempt to
form an alliance with other tribes