Fort Towson

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Indigenous peoples of North America This article is within the scope of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Native Americans, Indigenous peoples in Canada, and related indigenous peoples of North America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Indigenous peoples of North AmericaWikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North AmericaTemplate:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North AmericaIndigenous peoples of North America articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

@Hyacinth: There are cultural issues with your edits. You are adding information by outsider anthropologists that is not in alignment with the information and cultural protocols in the Indigenous communities whose intellectual and cultural property are being made public here, even though it is in the form of misinformation and misrepresentation. This is of concern to members of the Indigenous communities in question. Please email me as I would prefer this not be discussed in public. My email is enabled via my talk page. Thank you. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 16:46, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not written in secret. Hyacinth (talk) 21:46, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've nominated the image previously used for deletion and added some notes to the article and talk page requesting that music related categories and requests not be added. Hyacinth (talk) 22:40, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hyacinth, your sources are not all reliable ones. It is important to not engage in cultural appropriation or to buy into the statements of "plastic shaman" types. Montanabw^(talk) 22:54, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There where only two sources before I began editing the article. No sources have been added since. Though tribes in N. America chose the advantages of oral history over written records Wikipedia relies on written citations. Hyacinth (talk) 23:02, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See my response at the Wikiproject. WP relies on WP:RS. Misinformation from those outside the cultures do not meet this criteria. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 00:04, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As has been explained to me, Wikipedia relies on written citations and policies. For instance, WP:PSTS. To insist that there is an issue with an article that can't be written down is thus unreliable, and should be avoided. To insist that material should be removed, but be unable to write down a reason, is thus unreliable and should be avoided. Hyacinth (talk) 22:11, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How is it inherently clear on talk pages and edit summaries that given the sacred nature of the whistle, publication of details such as pictures and construction are inappropriate, but requires a citation when explained in the article? Hyacinth (talk) 04:34, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what makes the late Barney Old Coyote a "plastic shaman". The Bozeman Chronicle calls him a, "warrior, educator, [and] Indian rights advocate." Hyacinth (talk) 04:12, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't discussing any individual person, it is more that there are two categories of problem sources: 1) some anthropologists who wrote about Native topics, particularly before about the 1980s (and some after) suffered from their own colonial assumptions. 2) The "plastic shamans" are folks of either dubious native ancestry or none at all who claim to have done great study and such, but have no real credentials and may also play fast and loose with traditions they do not fully understand. (in my main area of interest, horsemanship this guy is a classic example -- a guy claiming Cherokee ancestry and alleging to be teaching Lakota ways... sigh...) FWIW, I actually went to high school with Barney Old Coyote's kids. He was a professor at Montana State and yes, actually a member of the Crow tribe. Montanabw^(talk) 02:05, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Would a quote from Old Coyote, who is not a plastic shaman, be appropriate in this article? Hyacinth (talk) 04:31, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It would depend on the quote. The Billings Gazette does not fact check their obituaries; so, while that obituary mentions that he was a ceremonial person, the obituary is not a reliable source.

In general, not about Old Coyote here but in evaluating Native sources in general, just because someone is a member of a tribe does not mean they are a ceremonial person in that tribe or authorized to speak on such matters. Like being from a small town doesn't mean you're the minister of the church in that town. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 18:29, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The quote supposedly from Old Coyote was not from his obituary in the Billings Gazette. Old Coyote was not called a, "warrior, educator, [and] Indian rights advocate," in his obituary, but in an interview with him in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Hyacinth (talk) 00:10, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I assume I shouldn't post the quote here, because it may be inappropriate. Hyacinth (talk) 22:37, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The material paragraph discussing the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and the Eagle feather law, is repeated in this article [and in those articles 23:11, 18 July 2016 (UTC)]. This material has little relevance to one part of one animal covered by this law, no instances or examples are given, and no part of the law discussing eagles or whistles is quoted. All discussion of the construction of the whistle has been removed as irrelevant. Do the laws of an invading government which are assumed to cover the article's subject deserve more coverage than the subject's existence, construction, conceptualization, or use? Perhaps the eagle-bone whistle article should be redirected? Hyacinth (talk) 04:20, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Voget

One source is listed as "Fred W, Voget (1984). The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance. The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance...". I assume that the name of the book Voget Fred wrote is not titled "The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance" with a subtitle of "The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance", and I also assume that the book titled "The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance" is not a part of a series title "The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance". Hyacinth (talk) 04:31, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Links

This article could have a few more links to some of the sources cited, such as Luther Standing Bear, which would presumably help in a reader's evaluation and location of those sources. Hyacinth (talk) 04:44, 18 July 2016 (UTC) [Modified 22:43, 18 July 2016 (UTC)][reply]

Title

Only two of the references cited use the spelling "eagle bone whistle" rather than "eagle-bone whistle": Gannon (2009), a Lakota critic, and Indian Country Today Media Network. Hyacinth (talk) 23:17, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

{{Indigenous rights footer}} is currently in the article, though it is not linked to in the template. This article is "too specific" to be linked to in this template, which "is about issues" Is this template appropriate for the article? Hyacinth (talk) 05:22, 19 July 2016 (UTC) [05:45, 19 July 2016 (UTC)][reply]

Yes, as it touches on issues of Indigenous intellectual property rights, the template can be added to articles where those cultural boundaries are a concern, but not every article where those rights are relevant needs to be included in the general template. - CorbieV ^☊ ☼ 18:29, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article may have issues with WP:PSTS. Perhaps the citations should indicate whether the source is primary, secondary, or tertiary. Hyacinth (talk) 00:18, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

These references should most likely not be readded

• Yellowtail, Thomas (2007). Native Spirit: The Sun Dance Way. World Wisdom. ISBN 978-1-933316-27-7. Retrieved 2011-05-22. Recorded and edited by Michael Oren Fitzgerald. [See: [1]]. Choice Magazine wrote, "This book becomes the personal testament of a pivotal figure in recent Crow cultural history. The book describes in exquisite detail Yellowtail's philosophy. Fitzgerald examines the place of the Sun Dance, and of the sacred, in the life and future of the Crow...It is a serious work of anthropology and history."
  • Reason: Excess detail, publication of details such as pictures and construction.

Hyacinth (Hyacinth (talk) 08:17, 19 July 2016 (UTC))[reply]

• Voget, Fred W. (1984). The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance. (University of Oklahoma Press). ISBN 0-8061-1886-5.
  • Reason: Plastic shaman. The claim that, "Eagle bone whistles are used in a number of Sun Dance cultures, such as the Crow," should also be removed from the article.

Hyacinth (talk) 23:56, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]