User:CalvinSpottedElk/Black Buffalo

Black Buffalo was recorded in the Lewis and Clark Journals when he settled a dispute that broke out.

His children were Afraid of Her, Hump, One Horn, Lone Horn, Pretty Woman and Rattling Blanket.

One Horn and Lone Horn were not the same person as is often mistaken.

The family tree on file with the Bureau of Indian Affairs shows this as do photos of each of them in the delegations to Washington.

My grandfather One Horn was the Son of Black Buffalo. Lone Horn was also a son. One Horn was the father of Chief Spotted Elk of the incident at Wounded Knee in 1890. One Horn died at Bear Butte, killed by a bull buffalo. Lone Horn then, as was the custom, took Spotted Elk into his family. Lone Horn was related to Crazy Horse and Touch the Clouds as well as Roaming Nose and Frog. helpme The problems with "reliable" sources on several of these pages is that they simply aren't. They may appear to be but the link is broken or in the case of the Lone Horn page, it isn't immediately obvious to someone who doesn't know the history. For instance, the painting attributed to George Caitlin part is correct but the name is not. Simply click on the picture itself and look at the source. You will see the Lakota name and beneath that a link to the Smithsonian showing "One Horn" NOT "Lone Horn".

Another problem is that with many of these records pertaining to Wounded Knee, etc... many have not yet been digitized or are personal family trees within the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Some Census Records show the names, but this takes quite a lot of digging to produce. Photos held at the Denver Public library or Smithsonian institution often show the faces but are not always detailed enough to show the names of those in the delegations.

Within the pages I see here related to my grandfathers, there are so many errors I don't even know where to begin correcting. I try to correct the most obvious ones first, but I didn't write these articles and am not really a writer at all.

I can just tell you what is true and what is not. helpme So, reading the above, (problem with 'reliable sources') is there an easy way to dispute lines within these articles, including the links to sources???? I can flag them if someone else can help me change them. I can also provide sources as best I can, whether it is a link to a photo at the Smithsonian I know contains my grandfathers or whether its a document I can scan and upload myself.

Can anyone help me with this? Somehow I created this page User:CalvinSpottedElk/Black Buffalo in this section and I wanted to be able to create several similar but I have gotten lost in the help pages and don't know what kind of page this is called. It seems to be a subset of my user which is fine until the pages are refined. (CalvinSpottedElk (talk) 06:08, 26 January 2010 (UTC))