Black Hawk Quotes
The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it.
Citations
Black Hawk, 1767-1838, Sac and Fox Indian Chief, Remark to General Atkinson, 1833
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Actually this is an ancient Roman Proverb.
Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, was a band leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe in what is now the Midwest of the United States. Although he had inherited an important historic sacred bundle from his father, he was not a hereditary civil chief. Black Hawk earned his status as a war chief or captain by his actions: leading raiding and war parties as a young man and then a band of Sauk warriors during the Black Hawk War of 1832.