Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Pomo and broken promises on the

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Envisioning a new political future

Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Pomo and broken promises on theA rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication. Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly adversarial account of frontier hostilities between white settlers and Native Americans. Black Hawk, a complex, contradictory figure, relates his life story and that of his people, who had been forced from