<P> The Black Hawk State Historic Site, in Rock Island, Illinois, occupies much of the historic site of the village of Saukenuk, the home of a band of Native Americans of the Sauk nation . It includes the John Hauberg Museum of Native American Life . The state park is located on a 150 - foot (45 m) bluff overlooking the Rock River in western Illinois . It is most famous for being the birthplace of the Sauk warrior Black Hawk . The disputed cession of this area to the U.S. Government was the catalyst for the Black Hawk War . </P> <P> The Sauk nation occupied this site as their principal village, called "Saukenuk ." It was a well - drained area, suitable for growing corn . The Sauk had arrived by 1750, probably after the Fox Wars (1712 - 1733). When the explorer Jonathan Carver reached Saukenuk in 1766, he called it "the largest and best built Indian town" he had ever seen, "more like a civilized town than the abode of savages ." </P>

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