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Does anybody have a proper source for why the Black Elk Speaks book is attributing the phrase to Crazy Horse? The reference I find i the book is "When we were close, someone yelled: "Let us go! This is a good day to die. Think of the helpless ones at home!" Then we all cried, " Hoka hey!" and rushed at them." In fact, where is there a contemporary reference attributing it to Crazy Horse at all? Low Dog attributes it to himself, which is fine if indeed it was a "standard" Sioux war cry / expression of commitment. In which case, the origin of the phrase lies in it's Anglicization per se, in which case the 1881 reference is the best I have found. Psm (talk) 23:39, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if anyone remembers/saw Mars advertisement on TV with indian father and son, father was sleeping and when he woke up hes saying 'It is a good day to die'. It was broadcasted on Polish TV in middle '90.

--Chaosu¹ (talk) 21:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Can we clean up the Historical section? The grammar doesn't work, there's poor punctuation, there is no citation, and the quotation doesn't include the phrase "a good day to die". With its unsubstantiated application of "all probability", and the final, hideous "So...", I was tempted to select that whole section and hit delete.81.158.117.2 (talk) 14:53, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"We?" ;-) Feel free to work on improving the section, it is a good idea to clean it up. Montanabw(talk) 18:07, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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