Native American Heritage Month Feature - Who Was Black Hawk and the Black Hawk War Prelude

What do men like Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Zachary Taylor, Winfield Scott, Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert Anderson and Andrew Jackson all have in common? They all participated in the Black Hawk War! Everyone knows about the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian Indian Removal Policy, but few know of one man's struggle to lead his nation and people back to their land. That man was Black Hawk.