Black Hawk

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Black Hawk or Blackhawk or Blackhawks refer to several people, places and things.

Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Things 4 Sports 5 Literature, entertainment, music

[edit] People

• Black Hawk (chief), a Sauk and Fox leader of the 19th century
  • Also Black Hawk War, an Indian War led by Black Hawk
• Antonga Black Hawk, a Ute leader known to whites as "Black Hawk"
  • Also Utah's Black Hawk War of the 1860s, an Indian War led by Antonga Black Hawk

[edit] Places

• Black Hawk Bridge, a bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin
• Black Hawk, Colorado
• Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Blackhawk, California
• Blackhawk, Mississippi
• Blackhawk-Camino Tassajara, California
• Black Hawk Purchase, a historical region of Iowa
• Black Hawk College in Moline, Illinois

[edit] Things

• USS Black Hawk is the name of four United States vessels
• Black Hawk Statue, a statue originally named The Eternal Indian by sculptor Lorado Taft
• UH-60 Black Hawk, a type of helicopter
• Stutz Blackhawk, a make of car
• Black Hawk Cigarettes, cigarettes produced by members of the Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma
• The Ruger Blackhawk, a single action revolver
• The Black Hawk (passenger train), formerly operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
• The Black Hawk empire, an invader region on Internet text-based adventure game, 'nation states'
• The black hawk (bird), a bird of prey
• Blackhawk tools. Originally and independant producer of high quality hand tools, now a subsidiary of Stanley tools

[edit] Sports

• Chicago Blackhawks , a National Hockey League team
• Tri-Cities Blackhawks, former National Basketball Association team. Currently the Atlanta Hawks.

[edit] Literature, entertainment, music

• Blackhawk, a 1950 ABC radio series based on the comic book
• Blackhawk (comics), an aviator comic book hero and leader of a team named Blackhawks
• Blackhawk (UK comic), a Tornado/2000 AD comic book character
• Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, a book by Mark Bowden
• Black Hawk Down, a Ridley Scott movie based on the book
• Black Hawk Down, an album by rapper Big Hawk
• Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, a videogame
• Blackhawk (band), a country music band
• Blackhawk is the European name for the video game Blackthorne
• A biological starship in Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy
• The Black Hawk (nightclub), a jazz venue once located in San Francisco's Tenderloin District
• Black Hawk Tobacco, popular smoking club in Palm Springs, California
• Blackhawk Golf Club, a public golf course in Delaware, Ohio
• "The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are off Our Lands!'," a song on the Illinois album by Sufjan Stevens.