![]() The village was the site of the western-most battle of the Revolutionary War, but destroyed by U.S. Saukenuk was the capital of the Sauk Nation. Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, known in English as Black Sparrow Hawk, Chief Black Hawk, or simply Black Hawk, was born in 1769 in Saukenuk near present-day Rock Island, Illinois. The entire exchange seemed like a good opportunity to pass on a few things about this famous statesman-leader-warrior but also reluctant Iowan from the state’s past. The governor’s spokesperson, Pat Garrett, told PolitiFact Iowa that Reynolds’ intention when answering the question was that all sides of a historical event, not just Black Hawk’s story, be taught, and not just two sides. She said the teaching has to be balanced so that “we are having a conversation, and we are educating children, not indoctrinating, and actually giving them the chance to learn and to make their own decisions.” “As long as it is balanced and we are giving both sides, I think it is part of history and they should be able to teach that,” she replied. So, the Times Daily Herald reporter asked Reynolds, who had visited Black Hawk Lake in northwest Iowa before signing the new restrictions into law, whether Black Hawk’s story could be taught. Pretty harsh, and aimed at a white-led nation’s policy of oppressing, segregating and discriminating against North America’s native tribes. We told them to let us alone but they followed on and beset our paths, and they coiled themselves among us, like the snake.” He called white men “school-masters” who “carry false looks, and deal in false actions they smile in the face of the poor Indian to cheat him they shake them by the hand to gain their confidence, to make them drunk to deceive them, and ruin our wives. “The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes,” Black Hawk said. ![]() Well then, how to teach about Black Hawk? He torched white Americans in clear racial fashion when surrendering 1832 after warring with them. It also prohibits teaching that any “individual, solely because of the individual’s race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.” ![]() Kim Reynolds, prohibits teaching that one race is superior to another, but also prohibits teaching that the United States or Iowa are fundamentally or systematically racist or sexist. The law, passed by the Republican-led Legislature along party lines and signed by Gov.
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