Black Hawk's War
We have probably been deliberately lied to about the so called 1832 Black Hawk War. Why? Where that war was fought is why! In 1804 the Fox and Sauk ceded to the United States, land which the Three Fires Confederation obviously claimed as theirs. The Three Fires Confederation forcefully took that western Illinois land after Pontiac's assasination, as a means to retaliate against the Illini people, and probably the Fox and Sauk as well. Their other goals to forcefully take western Illinois included the initiation of trade with the Spanish, who were located at St Louis, as well as to attempt to stand up against the invading English, who were by the time of Pontiac's assasination, initiating their presence in the St Louis region.
By the time the War of 1812 ended the United States forced the Three Fires Confederation to accept the 1804 treaty (one of the main reasons the War of 1812 was fought) between the Fox-Sauk and the United States, as being legitimate. Of course, the Three Fires Confederation did so by agreeing to sign over the land that the Fox and Sauk ceded to the United States in the year 1804. During the late 1820s treaty's between the Three Fires Confederation and the United States, the Americans likely made promises to the Three Fires Confederation that they had no intentions of keeping. Anyway, by 1832 the Americans had grown tired of waiting then probably demanded of the Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi of southern Wisconsin and western and northern Illinois, to make their preparations for moving to western Iowa and northwestern Missouri. What probably followed was the refusal of many of the Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi of southern Wisconsin and western and northern Illinois, to do what the United States demanded of them.
After realizing that the Three Fires Confederation of southern Wisconsin and western and northern Illinois would not abide, the Americans ordered in their soldiers to forcefully round up the Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi of southern Wisconsin and western and northern Illinois, and in the events that occurred some 600 or more Kickapoo, Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi were killed by the land hungry Americans. During the 1820s the population of the Kickapoo, Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi of southern Wisconsin and central, northern and western Illinois, was probably 20,000 or higher so just knowing that presents us with an large number of Anishinabek being forced by the United States to relocate to western Iowa and northwestern Missouri.
We can actually get an nearly correct estimate for the number of Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi who lived in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, and those who refused to follow the American demands to relocate west of the Mississippi river. Historically, in April of 1832 more than "400 Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi warriors and their familes", proceeded to return to their Illinois land to plant their vegetable crops, instead of relocating west of the Mississippi river. That represents around 3000 or more defiant Anishinabek. Evidently the sinister Americans of 1832 stated that those more than 400 Fox and Sauk (they were mostly Ojibway and Ottawa and not at all Fox or Sauk) warriors and their families, was less than one-fifth of the total Fox and Sauk population. So the total population of the Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi of southern Wisconsin and western and northern Illinois, in 1832, may have surpassed 20,000. So at first its very likely that more than 15,000 peaceful Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi followed the American demand to relocate west of the Mississippi river. As for the 3000 defiant Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi, their leaders chose to resist relocating and they eventually paid for it.
It is ludicrous to even dare to think that the Fox and Sauk were living in the kingdom of their bitter Bahweting Ojibway enemies in 1804. We have been lied to about those events, and even worse, the United States actually went so far as to force the Ojibway and Ottawa who relocated to Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, to claim themselves as being Potawatomi, which they aren't. Those Potawatomi who presently live in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Mexico are largely Bahweting Ojibways. They have been forced by the United States to lose their identity.