Black Hawk (lacrosse)

Black Hawk, also recorded as Joe Crawford, was a lacrosse player who won a bronze medal for Canada at the 1904 Summer Olympics with the Mohawk Indian team. Olympedia gives his date of birth as 23 May 1877 and his place of birth only as somewhere in Ontario, and lists his height as 183 centimetres. The Mohawk Indian team is sometimes described instead as an Iroquois team, since the Mohawks were one of the nations of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, and it appears to have come from the area around Brantford, Ontario. Little is known of his life, although a St. Louis newspaper reported that he was arrested for public drunkenness during the 1904 World's Fair and described him as a Cayuga man.