Diplomatic Misunderstandings: Indian Treaties and the Black Hawk War

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Students read and discuss primary documents about the Black Hawk War. They choose one of the conflicts during the war and investigate primary documents to explain both sides of the conflicts, and to discover inconsistencies in the accounts.