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A gathering of rivers : Indians, Métis, and mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832
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ISBN: 1280374179 9786610374175 0803202946 9780803202948 0803232101 9780803232105 9781280374173 Year: 2000 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,


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Re-Collecting Black Hawk : Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest
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ISBN: 0822980398 9780822980391 9780822944379 0822944375 Year: 2015 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to "Black Hawk," surrendered in 1832 after hundreds of his fellow tribal members were slaughtered at the Bad Axe Massacre.Re-Collecting Black Hawk examines the phenomena of this appropriation in the physical landscape, and the deeply rooted sentiments it evokes among Native Americans and descendants of European settlers. Nearly 170 original pho

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