Black Hawk, Indian name Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, (born 1767, Saukenuk [now in Rock Island, Illinois]—died October 3, 1838, village on the Des Moines River, southeastern Iowa Territory [now in northeastern Davis county, Iowa]), leader of a faction of Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) peoples. Black Hawk and his followers contested the disposition of 50 million acres (20 million hectares) of territory that had supposedly been granted to the United States by tribal spokesmen in the Treaty of St. Louis in 1804. His decision to defy the government and attempt to reoccupy tribal lands along the Rock River in Illinois resulted in the brief but tragic Black Hawk War of 1832.So Black Hawk fought the U.S. government for its treacherous take-back of land ceded to the Indian tribes. Not many years ago, that would have made Black Hawk a hero to the left. I suppose now leftists hate anybody who fights the expansion of tyrannical government, so Black Hawk was a bad guy.
It's hard to keep leftism straight without a contemporary scorecard.
Or maybe the leftists idiots are confusion "Blackhawk" (man) with "Blackfeet" (tribe). Given the sorry state of their educations and lack of any historical knowledge, this would not be surprising.
Abraham Lincoln's only experience of war before 1861 was in the Black Hawk War.