Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak elders and the language of return

and the language of return

vividly demonstrating that theories come from lived and felt experiences

when a man is described as harmless

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the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing

Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak elders and the language of returnA rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication. Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished Sauk leader Black Hawk was the first thoroughly adversarial account of frontier hostilities between white settlers and Native Americans. Black Hawk, a complex, contradictory figure, relates his life story and that of his people, who had been forced from