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Makataimeshekiakiah, the Sauk and Meskwaki, and the Black Hawk War: Home
The Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk
Original letter at the Wisconsin Historical society published in The Indian tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and region of the Great Lakes ... Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1911.
Original manuscript at the Wisconsin Historical society published in The Indian tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and region of the Great Lakes ... (Cleveland, 1911) Volume 2, page 183.