Black Hawk
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Black Hawk or Blackhawk refers to a number of people, places and things.
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People
- Black Hawk (chief), a Sauk and Fox leader of the 19th century
- Also Black Hawk War, an Indian War led by Black Hawk
- Antonga Black Hawk, a Ute leader known to whites as "Black Hawk"
- Also Utah's Black Hawk War of the 1860s, an Indian War led by Antonga Black Hawk
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Places
- Black Hawk Bridge, a bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin
- Black Hawk, Colorado
- Black Hawk County, Iowa
- Blackhawk, California
- Blackhawk-Camino Tassajara, California
- Black Hawk Purchase, a region of Iowa
- Black Hawk College in Moline, IL
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Things
- USS Black Hawk is the name of four United States vessels
- Black Hawk Statue is a statue originally named The Eternal Indian by sculptor Lorado Taft
- UH-60 Black Hawk, a type of helicopter
- Blackhawk, a make of car
- The Ruger BlackHawk, a revolver
- The Black Hawk, a passenger train formerly operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
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Sports
- Chicago Blackhawks , a National Hockey League team
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Literature, Entertainment, Music
- Blackhawk is an aviator comic book hero, leader of a team named Blackhawks.
- Blackhawk, a Tornado/2000 AD comic book character
- "Black Hawk Down", phrase, book by Mark Bowden and movie based on the book; all refer to a downed UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in the Battle of Mogadishu
- Blackhawk, a country music band
- Blackhawk is the European name for the video game Blackthorne
- Blackhawk, a biological starship in Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy
- The Black Hawk nightclub, a jazz venue once located in San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
- Blackhawk, a public golf course in Delaware, Ohio.