The Sauks and the Black Hawk War: With Biographical Sketches, EtcH.W. Rokker, printer, 1887 - 726 pages |
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acres Armstrong army Atkinson band bank Black Hawk Black Hawk war braves and warriors British called camp canoes Capt Colonel Davenport command Commissioners corn cultivated Dixon enemy father feet fences fire Fort Armstrong Fox tribes friends Gaines Government Governor guns Hawk band hence horses hostile hundred hunting Illinois Illinois river Indians Iowa Keokuk killed lands Le Clair leave living located lodge Louis matter miles militia Mississippi mounted volunteers Neapope never night old chief party peace phratry Pottawattamies Powesheik Prairie du Chien promontory Prophet Prophetstown Quashquamme Reynolds Rock Island Rock river Sauk Nation Saukenuk Sauks and Foxes says scalp sent side Sioux so-called treaty soldiers Spirit squaws Stillman's stockade stood thousand tion told took trader treaty of Ghent tribe United Vandruff village whiskey white settlers Winnebagoes Winnesheik women and children
Popular passages
Page 118 - And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him; and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
Page 53 - States' will deliver at some convenient place northward of the river Ohio, like useful goods, suited to the circumstances of the Indians, of the value of nine thousand five hundred dollars; reckoning that value at the first cost of the goods in the city or place in the United States, where they shall be procured.
Page 403 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 77 - The United States of America engage to put an end, immediately after the ratification of the present treaty, to hostilities with all the tribes or nations of Indians with whom they may be at war at the time of such ratification; and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations, respectively, all the possessions, rights and privileges which they may have enjoyed or been entitled to in one thousand eight hundred and eleven, previous to such hostilities...
Page 27 - The way, and the only way, to check and to stop this evil, is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it never was divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. For no part has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers— those who want all, and will not do with less.
Page 80 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 367 - My warriors fell around me; it began to look dismal. I saw my evil day at hand. The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night it sank in a dark cloud, and looked like a ball of fire.
Page 118 - Behold, I have done according to thy words : lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart, so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
Page 82 - American father, and explained to him their business, and urged the release of their friend. The American chief told them he wanted land, and they agreed to give him some on the west side of the Mississippi, and some on the Illinois side, opposite the Jeffreon.
Page 85 - Here, for the first time, I touched the goose quill to the treaty — not knowing, however, that, by that act, I consented to give away my village. Had that been explained to me, I should have opposed it, and never would have signed their treaty, as my recent conduct will clearly prove.