This etext was produced by Martin Schub from scanned pages courtesy of the 1st-hand-history Foundation (http://www.1st-hand-history.org) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK, OR BLACK HAWK, EMBRACING THE TRADITIONS OF HIS NATION, VARIOUS WARS IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN ENGAGED, AND HIS ACCOUNT OF THE CAUSE AND GENERAL HISTORY OF THE BLACK HAWK WAR OF 1832, His Surrender, and