Autobiography of Black Hawk: Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, - Softcover

Black Hawk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1721695214 ISBN 13: 9781721695218

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

Autobiography of Black Hawk or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak by Black Hawk. Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak in 1767 was a band leader and warrior of the Sauk American Indian tribe in what is now the Midwest of the United States. I was born at the Sac village, on Rock river, in the year 1767, and am now in my 67th year. My great grandfather, Nanamakee, or Thunder, according to the tradition given me by my father, Pyesa, was born in the vicinity of Montreal, Canada, where the Great Spirit first placed the Sac nation, and inspired him with a belief that, at the end of four years he should see a white man, who would be to him a father. Consequently he blacked his face, and eat but once a day, just as the sun was going down, for three years, and continued dreaming, throughout all this time whenever he slept. When the Great Spirit again appeared to him, and told him that, at the end of one year more, he should meet his father, and directed him to start seven days before its expiration, and take with him his two brothers, Namah, or Sturgeon, and Paukahummawa, or Sunfish, and travel in a direction to the left of sun-rising.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1721695214
• ISBN 13: 9781721695218
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94
• Editor: Patterson J.B.