Black Hawk - People

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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