Leading a band of rebels against the forces of the United States, Black Hawk was a prominent Native American leader whose ...

In 1828, an official from the U.S. Bureau for Indian Affairs cited ... and moved out of Saukenuk. Black Hawk did not acknowledge these treaties, and the war leader began his campaign to fight ...

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George Armstrong Custer led a thousand-man expedition into the Black ... the Lakota war or ignored them altogether, making it appear that Grant was blameless in the greatest single Indian war ...

After the Civil War ... for Indian hostilities After traveling 290 miles, the expedition reaches the Belle Fourche River, a tributary of the Cheyenne River. As they approach the Black Hills ...