Artforum, February 1st, 2006
BLACK HAWK DOWN An infamous American massacre and the cessions that led to it BLACK HAWK: THE BATTLE FOR THE HEART OF AMERICA BY KERRYA. TRASK NEW YORK: HENRY HOLT. 384 PAGES. $28.
HOW THE INDIANS LOST THEIR LAND: LAW AND POWER ON THE FRONTIER BY STUART BANNER CAMBRIDGE, MA: BELKNAP PRESS. 344 PAGES. $30.
In early April 1832, Black Hawk's band of Sauks-some two thousand men, women, and children, including several hundred well-armed warriors-crossed the Mississippi near the mouth of the Iowa River and began making their way north toward Saukenuk, their traditional summer village, at the junct...
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