Tuesday, 1 August 2023

The Tragic Bad Axe Massacre of 1832

 In 19th-century Illinois, tensions between settlers and local Native American tribes led to a series of escalating confrontations. The violent culmination of these conflicts drove Sauk leader Black Hawk and his tribe out of the state.


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Shawnee War Chief Blue Jacket by Doug Hall

 This impressed me.  Blue Jacket - Wikipedia Blue Jacket , or  Weyapiersenwah  (c. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the  Shawnee  people, kn...