Black Hawk
Black Hawk, a Sauk chief living in Illinois,
returned from a trip to Iowa and found his village overrun with
whites. When the settlers refused to move of Sauk land, the
state militia stepped in to protect their fictitious claims and
proceeded to drive the Sauk out of the state. Ultimately
defeated by overwhelming forces, Black Hawk was forced to surrender
with a pledge to never again visit the Sauk homelands in
Illinois.
A Map of the Adams-Onis Treaty and the migration/forced
removal of eastern tribes from treaty-protected lands in the south
and 'northwest.'
(for more on the Black Hawk War, click
here)
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