Talk:Little Hawk

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I was asked to look at this article and here are my thoughts: This article either needs to be deleted in whole, or strongly revised. Much of the material, if not all, is directly taken from one source, the subject of which was the escape of some bands of Lakota to Canada following the 1876 Black Hills War. The article shown was not about Little Hawk's role, but Crazy Horse's--many of the confusing references come from an attempt to transpose Crazy Horse with the "uncle of Crazy Horse", perhaps by someone not familiar with English. As such I suspect much of the material may be plagiarized, even with the substitutions.

The phraseology is word for word, such as: Committed by political and personal imperatives to preserve his people's hunting grounds, and reluctant to follow Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tatanka Yotanka) into Canadian exile. Cf to the following from the article: Crazy Horse was reluctant to follow his comrade Sitting Bull into Canadian exile. Wholly committed by political and personal imperatives to preserve his people's Yellowstone Valley hunting grounds .

I have a number of sources I will be checking to see if this article can be salvaged. In the meantime I deleted the material to a stub. If I'm wrong about copyright violations, I'll restore it (in a re-write) and apologize. --Buckboard 09:43, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Further information about Little Hawk (aka. Long Face): See IBHA Forum . Northern Plains Indians :: Chief Little Hawk photo and Information [1]

Sandoz Mari - Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas. Univ. of Nebraska Press. [2]