Black Hawk (artist)

Čhetáŋ Sápa (Black Hawk)
Dream or Vision of himself changed to a destroyer and riding a Buffalo Eagle, 1880-1881
Born
Chetan Sapa (Black Hawk)

c. 1832
South Dakota
Diedc. 1890
Unknown
NationalitySans Arc, Lakota

Čhetáŋ Sápa (Black Hawk) (c. 1832 – c. 1890) was a medicine man and member of the Sans Arc or Itázipčho band of the Lakota people.[1] He is most known for a series of 76 drawings that were later bound into a ledger book that depicts scenes of Lakota life and rituals. The ledger drawings were commissioned by William Edward Canton, a federal "Indian trader" at the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.[1]: 25  Black Hawk's drawings were drawn between 1880-1881. Today they are known as one of the most complete visual records of Lakota cosmology, ritual and daily life.[2]

  1. ^ a b Berlo, Janet Catherine (2000). Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of the Lakota World. Cooperstown, NY: George Braziller in association with the New York State Historical Association. p. 13. ISBN 0-8076-1465-3.
  2. ^ Berlo, Janet Catherine (1996). Plains Indian Drawings: 1865–1935. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. p. 188. ISBN 0-8109-3742-5.