PROUD WARRIOR: The Story of Black Hawk

by Marion Lawson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 15, 1968

A somewhat fictionalized, dialogue-laden biography of the Sauk warrior who saw his people and a way of life destroyed by the hands of westward-moving whites. The Indians were pawns in the 1812 American-British conflict and they were tricked into signing away Saukenuk, their holy ground, but the establishment of Black Hawk as a white-hater from the moment his blue-eyed rival was born into the tribe is suspect, the portrayal too overfly sympathetic. The chief saw his tribe's numbers diminished by disease, its dignity diminished by alcohol; his final humiliation was the necessary submission to rival Keokuk, fortune's child but ultimately another casualty of deceptive White Father diplomacy.

Pub Date: Nov. 15, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Hawthorn

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1968

Categories: NONFICTION