Black Hawk and Keokuk

Posted by Jeffrey R Gudzune Nov 2, 2009

When I started working on this series I was not sure how much detail I should put into the individual stories about the major players in this series of events. Black Hawk was obviously passionate about protecting Sauk and Fox land claims. He carried on a war of resistence even thouogh he knew he could never fully counter the advance of white settlement. On the opposite side of the issue is Keokuk, who saw the inevitable result of American settlement and worked to preserve Sauk and Fox independence while at the same time agreeing to relocate. My research has given me a lot to cover and will therefore be the focus of the next several artciles. You may also have notived that there is no image this week. I never liked the idea of having to put a picture in each artcile--it takes too much time to look for free images and often they will not upload. This week, I tried several times to upload an image to no avail. If you can't read 600 words without an image I apologize. Reading can be fun too.