In 1882 a second edition of the autobiography was published by Patterson.
The newly-added appendix contained Black Hawk’s account of his visits to Shokokon, the area that is now called Burlington, Iowa:
“A new village had been started at Shokokon (Flint Hills) by the whites, and some of its people have already built good houses, but the greater number are still living in log cabins. They should have retained its Indian name, Shokokon, as our people have spent many happy days in this village.
“Here too, we had our council house in which the braves of the Sac nation have assembled many times to listen to my words of counsel. It was situated in a secluded but romantic spot in the midst of the bluffs, not far from the river, and on frequent occasions, when it became necessary to send out parties to make war on the Sioux to redress our grievances, I have assembled my braves here to give them counsel before starting on the warpath.
“And here, too, we have often met when starting out in the fall for our fall and winter’s hunt, to counsel in regard to our several locations for the winter. In those days the Fur Company had a trading house here and the only neighbors were the resident Indians of Tama’s town, located a few miles above on the river.”
Black Hawk, however, did not just counsel for war against the Sioux. In the spring of 1832 Black Hawk began to gather followers near present day Fort Madison, Iowa.
Black Hawk had been told that the British would send him weapons and supplies and that the other tribes would come to his aid.
He planned to return to Illinois and retake his homeland which he believed, for good reason, was wrongly…
