Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk

Originally published in 1833, the autobiography of the Sauk war chief Black Hawk was the first memoir written by a Native American who was actively resisting US Indian removal policy. Donald Jackson edited the first scholarly version of this work— Black Hawk: An Autobiography —in 1955. Since then, the  Life  has become a classic and seminal text in the fields of Native American literature and studies, American history, literature, autobiography, and cultural studies. This edition