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The author, as a child, spent so much time alone in the woods, school authorities suspected psychological problems.
At Iowa State College, he lived alone in a cabin in the woods and authorities there suspected the same thing.
Later, as an employee and tree planting contractor for the United States Forest Service, he planted over one half million trees in the wild country.
This put him in contact with native Americans and gave him an understanding most lack.
He now lives with his native American wife Denise in a rural area of Iowa.
Black Hawk's White Dilemma is the incredible but true story of two native American tribes driven by the Canadian military into the upper Mississippi River Valley.
This forced them to become one tribe, the Meskwaki, and fight for their very existence against other tribes in the area. They prevailed and became dominate over a huge hunting ground.
Then large amounts of white settlers flooded into the upper Mississippi river valley. The Meskwaki joined with the British in the war of 1812 to drive them out.
The result was the United States military pushing the Meskwaki out of Illinois and into Iowa.
Then two Meskwaki leaders emerged, Black Hawk and Keokuk.
Their ideas on dealing with the whites were so different, they split the tribe.
Keokuk wanted to cooperate and integrate with the whites, thinking them too strong to defeat.
Black Hawk led a war party into Illinois to retake their land. This became know as the Black Hawk War.
Black Hawk's ability to think on his feet and change battle plans to his advantage, in the heat of battle, became legendary. He won most of the battles but lost the war due to force of numbers.
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