Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk

This work traces the origins, customs, and political structures of the Sac and Fox peoples and follows the life of Black Hawk from youth through wartime service, diplomatic negotiations, and leadership in resistance to American expansion. It recounts treaties and land cessions, episodes of alliance with the British, the tensions that culminated in the 1832 conflict, battlefield engagements, capture, imprisonment and subsequent visits to eastern cities and the national capital. Interspersed are ethnographic sketches, critiques of government policy toward Indigenous communities, and appendices on neighboring nations, ceremonial practices, colonization, and the sale of liquor on the frontier.