In this fifth meeting of our new Circle Squared Conversations in the Town Square in Williamsburg at the foot of the oldest academic building in the United States, we continue our nine-month, coast-to-coast contemplative journey across America in place and time. This month’s reading is Black Hawk, Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, among the earliest and most consequential Indigenous life narratives published in the United States. A drone note of pathos runs through the work: the warrior who once led a proud people knows that he may end without village, without following, without world.