Black Hawk

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Black Hawk or Blackhawk refers to a number of people, places and things.

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

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

Things

• USS Black Hawk is the name of four United States vessels

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• 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

Sports

• Chicago Blackhawks , a National Hockey League team

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.

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