Black Hawk's Surrender Speech

In "Black Hawk's Surrender Speech," Black Hawk argues that the white man or new settlers were taking away his tribes resources. He claims that all the animals and water were going away, and because of this, he wants to ger rid of these new people.

According to the document, these "white men" were greta enemies of the Sauk. Black Hawk states, "An indian who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death and eat up by the wolves." These people are so bad, that being like them would result in ones death.

Black Hawk announces that they will go to war with these people. He says, "We set up the war-whoop, and dug up the tomahawk; our knives were ready," The way he uses the words he does to describe