1832

Black Hawk War and slaughter of fleeing Sauk people

Illinois and Wisconsin; Sauk and allied peoples

The return of Black Hawk’s band to its homeland led to military pursuit and mass killing. Hunger, flight, and attacks on noncombatants are central to the book’s account.

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Context / qualification

The book compresses surrender and massacre episodes; do not repeat that sequence as an exact battlefield reconstruction.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 6

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