Black Hawk (Makataimeshekiakiak)
1767 CE–1838 CE · Saukenuk (Sauk)
Makataimeshekiakiak, known as Black Hawk, was a war leader of the Sauk (Sac and Fox) people in the upper Mississippi Valley. In 1832 he led a band of Sauk, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo back across the Mississippi to reclaim ancestral lands in Illinois, a move that precipitated the conflict known as the Black Hawk War. After the band's defeat he was captured and toured eastern cities, and he later dictated an autobiography, one of the earliest by a Native American. He died in 1838.
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- Osei Bonsu· 1779 CE–1824 CE
- Agustín de Iturbide· 1783 CE–1824 CE
- William IV· 1765 CE–1837 CE
- Alexander I· 1777 CE–1825 CE
- Sacagawea· 1788 CE–1812 CE
- Dingane· –1840 CE
- Tenskwatawa (the Prophet)· 1775 CE–1836 CE
- Andrew Jackson· 1767 CE–1845 CE
- Sequoyah· 1770 CE–1843 CE
- Simón Bolívar· 1783 CE–1830 CE
- William Henry Harrison· 1773 CE–1841 CE
- John Quincy Adams· 1767 CE–1848 CE
- Shaka· 1787 CE–1828 CE
- Charles X· 1757 CE–1836 CE
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