Black Hawk's Surrender Summary

The central idea of “Black Hawk’s Surrender Speech 1832 is that the white men are worse than natives. Indians are doing nothing more than defending their lands and families. The white men may not scalp the head; but they do worse-they “poison the heart”, Like any poison this one too spreads, slowly killing off the Black hawk by creating hypocrites and liars, adulterers, lazy drones, all talkers, and no workers just like the white man. Thus solidifying the central Idea that white men are worse than Indians. As stated above “An Indian who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat [sic] up by the wolves”.

The speech further explains that he tried and failed and he is sorry that soon the Natives