page_title: Flying Hawk
section_title: Pennsylvania history
hierarchical_section_title: Flying Hawk / Chief Flying Hawk's Commentaries / Pennsylvania history
caption_attribution_description: English: William PennDeutsch: William Penn († 1718)日本語: ウィリアム・ペン（William Penn）
context_page_description: Flying Hawk was an Oglala Lakota warrior, historian, educator and philosopher. Flying Hawk's life chronicles the history of the Oglala Lakota people through the 19th and early 20th centuries, as he fought to deflect the worst effects of white rule; educate his people and preserve sacred Oglala Lakota land and heritage. Chief Flying Hawk was a combatant in Red Cloud's War and in nearly all of the fights with the U.S. Army during the Great Sioux War of 1876. He fought alongside his first cousin Crazy Horse and his brothers Kicking Bear and Black Fox II in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, and was present at the death of Crazy Horse in 1877 and the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Chief Flying Hawk was one of the five warrior cousins who sacrificed blood and flesh for Crazy Horse at the Last Sun Dance of 1877. Chief Flying Hawk was the author of his commentaries and accounts of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and the Wounded Knee Massacre, and of Native American warriors and statesmen from who fought to protect their families, defend the invasion of their lands and preserve their culture.
context_section_description: During his stays at The Wigwam, Flying Hawk became interested in early Pennsylvania history.  He cited William Penn as a man who wished to see fair play, good faith and honesty extended to the Indians.  Flying Hawk said if Penn had been obeyed by his officials and followers, there would have been no Indian wars in the Pennsylvania.  But when they began to steal Indian land like was done in the Walking Purchase, and cheating them in every trade by getting them drunk, then the Indians retaliated.  For half a century the Indians killed white settlers, burned their homes and crops and took their women and children prisoners.  The Indians liked the French best because they did not take their land, but only wanted furs.  But the English cut down their forests, killed their game and treated them as they did wild animals, wanting only to drive them back so that they could possess their country.
  McCreight told Flying Hawk how Indians had killed his great grandfather in 1794.  How an Indian had hidden behind a log on the river bank and shot him through the groin while steering a houseboat on the Kiskiminetas River but a few miles from The Wigwam.  He asked the Chief how he would explain such a wholly uncalled-for criminal act.  Slow to reply, the Chief wanted to ask if this man was a soldier.  Told that he had been a captain in the Revolution, the old man said that either the Indian knew the white man, or was drunk when he did the shooting.  Investigation of the affair showed that the Indian had been in Pittsburgh and had been drinking that day.  But, as the captain shot the Indian, both assailant and victim were dead and nothing was done or could be done about it.
caption: "If William Penn had been obeyed by his officials and followers, there would have been no Indian wars in the Pennsylvania." Chief Flying Hawk
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