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Benjamin Drake. Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
Table of Contents
PREFACE
HISTORY
OF THE. SAUKEE AND MUSQUAKEE NATIONS,
USUALLY CALLED THE
SAC AND FOX INDIANS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
COUNCIL GROUND AT PRAIRIE DU CHIENS
MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH,
OR. BLACK HAWK
CHAPTER III
BATTLE OF SINK HOLE
CHAPTER IV
KEOKUK,
THE WATCHFUL FOX
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
BATTLE OF SYCAMORE CREEK
BATTLE OF BAD-AXE
CHAPTER VII
WABOKIESHIEK, THE PROPHET
CHAPTER VIII
TREATY AT FORT ARMSTRONG
CHAPTER IX
APPENDIX
SKETCHES OF THE SIOUX
COLONIZATION OF THE INDIANS
INDIAN DANCING CEREMONIES
CHAPTER II
SALE OF WHISKEY TO THE INDIANS
INDEX
FOOTNOTES
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Benjamin Drake
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"When I was first appointed governor of Indiana Territory, these once powerful tribes were reduced to about thirty warriors, of whom twenty five were Kaskaskias, four Peorians, and a single Michiganian. There was an individual lately alive at St. Louis, who saw the enumeration of them made by the Jesuits in 1745, making the number of their warriors four thousand. A furious war between them and the Sacs and Kickapoos reduced them to that miserable remnant, which had taken refuge amongst the white people of Kaskaskia and St. Genevieve. The Kickapoos had fixed their principal village at Peoria, upon the south bank of the Illinois river, whilst the Sacks remained masters of the country to the north."
These historical facts are interesting, as showing the manner in which the Sauks and Foxes obtained possession of the fertile plains of Illinois; and, as adding another to the many instances on record, in which hordes of northern invaders have overrun and subjugated the people of more southern regions. The causes are obvious for this descent of the Sauks and Foxes, upon their southern neighbors. They reached a more genial climate, a country where game was more abundant than in the region they left behind, and in which they could, with greater facility, raise their corn, beans and pumpkins. Other causes than these might have had their influence. The Illini confederacy may have provoked the descent of the northern tribes upon them. On this point, Lieutenant Pike in his travels to the sources of the Mississippi, has the following remark.
