People
- Black Hawk (Sauk leader) (1767–1838), Sauk and Fox leader
- The Black Hawk War, named after him
- Black Hawk (artist) (c. 1832–c. 1890), Sans Arc Lakota artist
- Black Hawk (lacrosse), Native American lacrosse player
- Antonga Black Hawk (c. 1830–1870), Ute leader known to whites as "Black Hawk"
- Black Hawk War (1865–1872), an Indian War named after him
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