Grace Thorpe
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Grace Frances Thorpe was an American environmentalist and Native rights activist. She served with the Women's Army Corps and received a Bronze Star Medal for her service as a Corporal in the New Guine
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Black Hawk (Sauk leader)
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Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa, known in English as Black Hawk, was a Sauk leader and warrior who lived in what is now the Midwestern United States. Although he had inherited an important historic sacred b
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…Miller. Her tribal heritage included Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and Menominee ancestry, and she was a direct descendant of Sac and Fox chief Black Hawk. She was born in Yale, Oklahoma in the only house her father ever owned. Now a museum, it is fondly known as the "Jim Thorpe House" and can be visited…
Portrait by George Catlin, 1832
Plans of the original Fort Madison, 1810. Black Hawk participated in the 1809 and 1812 sieges; the fort was captured by British-supported Indians in 1813.
Plaster life cast of Black Hawk, original ca. 1830, at Black Hawk State Historic Site
Calumet (or "peace pipe") used by Black Hawk, on display at Black Hawk State Historic Site.