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The Sac and Fox Indians (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Sac and Fox Indians (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian Series
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Of all the aboriginal tribes of the Americas none had a more
courageous or tragic destiny than the twin tribes of the
Mississippi Valley, the Sacs and the Foxes. Occupying a parkland
area midway between the powerful Iroquois and Sioux tribes in
present Illinois and Wisconsin, the Sacs and the Foxes were
prosperous agrarian people who held their own against their more
numerous neighbors. The white frontier moved threateningly closer,
and in the War of 1812 the Sacs and the Foxes, resisting the
Americans' encroachment on their lands, joined forces with the
British. Black Hawk, the great Sac and Fox leader, refused to
accept land cessions to the whites, and in 1832 the tribe's worst
fears came true: a group of white squatters claimed the site of
Black Hawk's village in Illinois. In the "war" that followed, Black
Hawk and his force retreated before an overwhelming force of whites
and were virtually wiped out in a battle at the mouth of the Bad
Axe River in Wisconsin. Volume 48 in the Civilization of the
American Indian Series Pushed out onto the plains, the remnants of
the tribes had to content with the dominant Comanches. Their
destiny had been changed forever.
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