Black Hawk
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Black Hawk or Blackhawk or Blackhawks refers to a number of people, places and things.
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
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
Things
- USS Black Hawk is the name of four United States vessels
- Black Hawk Statue is 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
- The Ruger Blackhawk, a single action revolver
- The Black Hawk (passenger train), formerly operated by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Sports
- Chicago Blackhawks , a National Hockey League team
- Tri-Cities Blackhawks, former National Basketball Association team. Currently the Atlanta Hawks.
Literature, Entertainment, Music
- Blackhawk (comics) is an aviator comic book hero and leader of a team named Blackhawks.
- Blackhawk (UK comic), a Tornado/2000 AD comic book character
- , a book by Mark Bowden
- Black Hawk Down, a Ridley Scott movie based on the book
- , 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
- Blackhawk Golf Club, a public golf course in Delaware, Ohio
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