SOURCE: "Masculinity and Self-Performance in the Life of Black Hawk," in American Literature, Vol. 65, No. 3, September, 1993, pp. 475-99.
In the essay that follows, Sweet discusses the role of Native American masculine identity in the autobiography of Black Hawk, a Sauk warrior who was defeated by the U. S. army in 1832.
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