BLACK HAWK WAR and Chief Black Hawk - Part I

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In 1832, a renegade chief crossed the Mississippi river. In his view, it was simply to get back to his cornfields. But the United States considered it an invasion, and reacted accordingly, and at first, badly, leading to deaths on both sides. It was, according to the general that led troops in the war, a mistake. But it would make the careers of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis and Zachary Taylor and open up western settlement. Yet if Black Hawk was an enemy, why was he embraced by those that defeated him. Why in the name of newspapers, in the county courthouse, in state motos and in attack helicopters, does he remain? We look at the story of Black Hawk, his 'war,' and the consequences. We'll look at appropriation of Native American symbols and the legacy of Black Hawk's war today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:05.0	They marveled at him.
0:07.0	The Indian Warrior Chief, his hair, his feathers, his full eyes, his Roman nose. The gasp at him in Norfolk, Virginia, cheered for him in Baltimore,
0:17.6	stumbled over each other to get a glimpse at him in Washington, D.C.
0:21.6	filled the streets in Philadelphia. They marveled at his
0:25.4	entourage, his priest, the prophet in the front, his sons and brother
0:31.5	marching behind single file escorted by US military.
0:37.0	Indeed when Chief Blackhawk of the Salk Nation came to New York to visit.
0:43.5	President Andrew Jackson had just been in town the day before
0:47.1	and the newspapers noticed it.
0:49.1	They noticed that the crowds had been just as large for Chief Blackhawk as for Andrew Jackson,
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1:46.6	forest earned his place, leading a nation because of his skills as a warrior. The chief of the Sox tribe ruled over an area that encompasses parts of four states today.
1:58.0	This day in 1833,
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