Reviewed by Stephen Warren | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.3

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The Black Hawk War of 1832

By Patrick J. Jung

(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 275. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Between April and August 1832, the Sauk warrior, Black Hawk, and 1,100 of his supporters crossed the Mississippi River and returned to their homelands in Illinois in defiance of a federal order. Their decision to question the legality of the treaties of 1804 and 1816 resulted in the deaths of approximately 520 members of the "British" band of the Sauk tribe, along with a significant number of Fox (Meskwaki), Kickapoo, and Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) allies. In contrast, 77 white civilians, volunteers, and regulars lost their lives. After the British band's initial victory at Stillman's Run, along the Rock River above modern-day Dixon, Illinois, the Sauk lost three successive battles in southern and southwestern Wisconsin, culminating in the devastating loss of life at the Battle of Bad Axe, above Prairie du Chien on the Mississippi River. In just five months, both the Sauk and American settlers dehumanized each other in a war that regularly featured the mutilation of the dead and wounded. And in the end, the war became the last act of military resistance to federal Indian policy for the Algonquian peoples of the Midwest, as both the Native allies and enemies of the Sauk resigned themselves to the Indian Removal Act.

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