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CHAPTER XI.

THE SIOUX.

Pages 173 - 185.....Hennepin's Visit to the Sioux--Du Luth--Relations of the Sioux to other Tribes--Subdivisions of the Tribe --Wahbashaw--Lewis and Clark's Account of the Sioux--A Peculiar Brotherhood--Sioux Name of Little Sioux River--"Pilot Rock" --"Lake of the Spirit Land"--Schoolcraft's Account--Lieutenant Pike--Wanata--The Sun-dance--Conquest of the Rickarees--Mon-ka-ush-ka--Customs and Traditions --Superstitions--Religion--The Dog-dance--Clans --Badges--Disposal of the Dead.

CHAPTER XII.

THE BLACK HAWK WAR.

Pages 186 - 207.....Causes of the War--Encroachments of the Whites--Murder of Black Hawk's Adopted Son --"Battle of the Sink-hole''--British Agents--Capture of Prairie du Chien --Fort Armstrong--White Settlers--Demand the Removal of the Indians--Keokuk and his People Remove West of the Mississippi--Black Hawk and his Adherents Refuse--He Consults the British--Gov. Reynolds--Gen. Clark--Gen. Gaines--The Prophet--Military Preparations--Black Hawk and his Band Cross the Mississippi--Treaty of Capitulation--New Difficulties-Neopope-- Keokuk's Advice--Black Hawk and his Band Return--Regulars and Militia again Sent against them--Black Hawk's Flag of Truce Disregarded--Major Stillman's Defeat--Alarm on the Frontier--Gen. Dodge Raises Volunteer Companies--March to Dixon's Ferry --Murders on the Pecatonica--"Battle of Pecatonica"--Battle on the Wisconsin --Wretched Condition of the Indians--Their Attempts to Escape--Fired upon From the Steamboat ''Warrior''--Battle of Bad Axe--Defeat of the Indians--Escape of Black Hawk and his Associates--Their Capture--Gen. Scott--Treaty--The "Black Hawk Purchase."

CHAPTER XIII.

SKETCH OF BLACK HAWK.

Pages 208 - 230.....Early Life--Not a Chief by Birth--Exploits as a Young Warrior--His Father, Pyesa--Death of Pysea--Black Hawk Assumes the "Medicine-Bag" --Aids in Attacks on Fort Madison --Speech Before Gen. Street--Black Hawk as a Prisoner--At Jefferson Barracks--Taken to Washington--Speech to the President--In Fortress Monroe--Address to Col. Eustis--ln Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York--Speeches--Receives Presents--Taken to Albany and Buffalo--Visit from the Senecas --Replies to a Speech of the Seneca Chief--Arrives at Fort Armstrong--Ceremonies of Liberation--Speeches in Council--Humiliation--Surrenders the Scepter--Goes Again with a Delegation to Washington--Residence in Iowa--His Family--Home on the Des Moines--Attends a Celebration of the Fourth at Fort Madison --Responds to a Toast--Feeling Toward Keokuk--Declining Days--Death--Interment--Remains Stolen --Recovered--Placed in a Museum at Burlington--Finally Consumed by Fire.

Contents, page 13 (Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17)
Contents, page 14 (Chapters 18, 19, 20)
Contents, page 15 (Chapters 21, 22, 23, 24)
Contents, page 16 ( Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 1 and 2)
Contents, page 17 (Appendix - Pontiac's War, Etc., Chapters 3, 4, 5)

Introductory Page| Portrait of MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAH (Black Hawk)| Title Page| Page 2

Preface (pages 3 - 6)| Illustrations (page 7)

Contents, page 9 (Chapters 1, 2)
Contents, page 10 (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6)
Contents, page 11 (Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10)

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