The history of Clinton County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns &c., biographical sketches of citizens . versity, have achieved a world wide-reputation. The people werebecoming wealthy. The domains of the United States had been extended,and had the sons of the forest been treated with honesty and justice, therecord of many years would have been that of peace and continuous pros-perity. BLACK HAWK AND THE BLACK HAWK WAR. This conflict, though confined to Illinois, is an important epoch inthe Northwestern history, being the last war with the Indians in this partof the
The history of Clinton County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns &c., biographical sketches of citizens . versity, have achieved a world wide-reputation. The people werebecoming wealthy. The domains of the United States had been extended,and had the sons of the forest been treated with honesty and justice, therecord of many years would have been that of peace and continuous pros-perity. BLACK HAWK AND THE BLACK HAWK WAR. This conflict, though confined to Illinois, is an important epoch inthe Northwestern history, being the last war with the Indians in this partof the United States. Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiah, or Black Hawk, was born in the principalSac village, about three miles from the junction of Rock River with theMississippi, in the year 1767. His fathers name was Py-e-sa, or Pahaes ;his grandfathers, Na-na-ma-kee, or the Thunderer. Black Hawk earlydistinguished himself as a warrior, and at the age of fifteen was permittedto paint and was ranked among the braves. About the year 1783, heWent on an expedition against the enemies of his nation, the Osages, one 74 THE NORTHWEST BLACK ITAWK, THE SAC CHIEFTAIN. THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 75 of whom he killed and scalped, and for this deed of Indian braveiy he waspermitted to join in the scalp dance. Three or four years after he, at thehead of two hundred braves, went on another expedition against theOsages, to avenge the murder of some women and children belonging tohis own tribe. Meeting an equal number of Osage warriors, a fiercebattle ensued, in which the latter tribe lost one-half their number. TheSacs lost only about nineteen warriors. He next attacked the Cherokeesfor a similar cause. In a severe battle with them, near the present Cityof St. Louis, his father was slain, and Black Hawk, taking possession ofthe Medicine Bag, at once announced himself chief of the Sac had now conquered the Cherokees, and about the year 1800, at thehead of five hundred Sacs and Foxes, an
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