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EPISODE · Aug 30, 2025 · 1H 46M

Last Words of the First Nations, Black Hawk | Speeches from the Old West

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The Speech Guys go back to the beginning with words by the first westerners--in this case, Black Hawk, after the Sauk and Meskawi lost possession of land in northern Illinois and Wisconsin in 1832.Fact check: Mike comments on the distinction between the Sioux and Lakota. The "Sioux" refers to a larger aggregation of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota.Fact check: The anti-sematic social media posts of the Palestinian graduate student is discussed here in the Wall Street Journal.Thumbnail image is a depiction of Black Hawk by George Catlin in 1832 and used from Wikipedia.

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