Native Memoirs from the War of 1812

Preface
Maps
Chronological Overview
Black Hawk (Sauk)
Introduction to Black Hawk
1. Crisis on the Upper Mississippi Frontier, 1803?–12
2. Joining the British on the Detroit Front, 1812–13
3. Return Home, Keokuk's Rise, and Private War, 1814–15
4. Campaigning on the Mississippi River, 1814
5. An End to Fighting, 1815–16
6. Black Hawk's Speeches, 1815–17
William Apess (Pequot)
Introduction to William Apess
1. An Indentured Servant's Struggles, 1809–13
2. A Runaway Joins the Army, 1812–13
3. Campaigning on the Canadian Border, 1813–15
4. A Wandering Life, 1815–16
5. Another Version of William Apess's Autobiography, c. 1813–c. 1820
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

""One need only consult Benn's exhaustive endnotes to see the herculean effort that went into researching, annotating, contextualizing, and stitching these two autobiographies together to create a vivid portrait of Native experiences and perspectives of the War of 1812 and the early American republic... One could almost argue that Benn's work is actually two books; the autobiographies themselves as one, with Benn's annotations as the other. All of this is to say that Benn has done a remarkable job of putting these two Native voices into dialogue with one another, and then making them ""speak to us in the twenty-first century with a vitality that commands our attention.""