Black Hawk (artist)

Black Hawk (ca. 1832-1890?) was a member of the Sans Arc or "Itazipco" band of Lakota people.cite book
last = Berlo
first = Janet Catherine
authorlink =Janet Catherine Berlo
title = Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of the Lakota World
publisher = George Braziller in association with the New York State Historical Association
date = 2000
location = New York, NY
pages =
url =
doi =
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isbn = 0-8076-1465-3] He is best known as an artist who, in 1880-1881, produced a set of seventy-six color "ledger drawings" of Lakota life and spiritual visions for William Edward Caton, the federal "Indian trader" at the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Black Hawk received fifty cents per drawing from Caton. Black Hawk is believed to have have been killed in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 but this is not certain.

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*" [http://alumni.ucsd.edu/magazine/vol3no2/features/tribal.htm Drawing on Tribal History] " by Inga Kiderra. This "@UCSD magazine" article is about ledger drawings and features Black Hawk and his work.
* " [http://www.plainsledgerart.org/view.pila?action=list&LEDGER_ID=10 Black Hawk Ledger] ," a virtual gallery of Black Hawk's drawings on the [http://www.plainsledgerart.org/index.pila Plains Indian Ledger Art] web site.