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I just redid the whole Havasupai page and it is no longer a stub article. I am pretty new to the whole gradine standard and didnt want to grade it improperly. I just know that it is no longer a stub. If someone that it more adept to grading articles feels like grading, please do. Or you can shoot me over some info on how to grade articles and what you think this article should be graded as. But whatever happens Havasupai needs a new grade. Thanks.
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Template:WPIPNA —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Toussaint (talk • contribs) 16:32, 21 February 2007 (UTC).
I worked quite a bit over the last year on the John Ross page, and find myself spending an increasing amount of time removing vandalism from the page. First, I'm wondering if other pages from the Indigenous Peoples Project are having the same problem. Two, I'm believe there is some way to keep anyone who has not logged in from making edits on a page. I don't know how to do this and am looking to hear how this can be done. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jaedglass (talk • contribs) 22:29, 21 February 2007 (UTC).
I agree. I looked on this page by accident today, and found some really stupid vandalism right at the top. I removed it, then I looked at the history, and it seemed there was more vandalism then I had seen on other pages. I don't know if you want to prohibit those not logged in from editing, because I'm not logged in, but I think this kind of vandalism is inexcusable, so there must be something you could do. I can understand how Jaedglass feels. He did put in a lot of work, and if I had done that and had to spend all that time removing stupid things, I'd be mad too.
Currently, Kinnikinnick redirects to Bearberry but around where I live, we call the Red Osier Dogwood as "kinnikinnick" and bearberry as something that is added to the "kinnikinnick." Is this a pure regionalism or should this redirect instead go to a disambiguation page and from the disambiguation to the various uses of this word? CJLippert 23:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I started this page after reading Charles C Mann's 1491. I realized that there are a few pages that deal with names for a specific area, but nothing that deals with both the North and South American continents. I know this is likely to be huge, based on existing work, so I think that it should be some kind of guide to smaller areas. It won't obviously fit on just one page, but a summary would be an intro point for going deeper into an area... Hires an editor 19:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated the category for renaming as Native American peoples. Please offer your comments at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_February_28#Category:Native_American_tribes Asarelah 03:10, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I think that we should add first nation musicians to List of Native American musicians. If we do this, do we need to change the title and/or lead paragraph? Or should there be another list? Thanks. Smmurphy(Talk) 23:36, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I've been working on List of Native American musicians for a while, and now I've gone meta, looking at List of Native Americans (for which there is an afd). I'm trying to organize that list, as well as make sublists for it. My problem right now is in terminology, is there a way we can talk about past NA leaders, I've created an article called List of Native American leaders which includes past chiefs, military leaders, medicine people, etc, but doesn't include politicians, or other historic figures such as Sequoya. My instinct is to add historic to the title of the page, but I don't know if that makes sense. I was originally going to call it list of NA historic figures, but I didn't like that either. I picked this title because it matches an existing category. Does anyone think I should change it? Also, stop by and help out with these lists if you like. There is a lot of sorting to be done, some new sublist articles to create, and each name should include some basic bio information on it (dates, tribe, notability). Thanks. Smmurphy(Talk) 05:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Would someone assess this article? I won't assess, as I am the main contributor to the article. I would appreciate an honest strengths and especially weaknesses commentary. Royalbroil T : C 19:20, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
At the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America/Anishinaabe, we were in discussion about category merging of the two different Anishinaabe mythology categories out there, which after looking around I came across this category: Category:Algonquin-language films. Looking at what is there, it seems we again have the Algonquin/Algonquian confusion going on. Should we remove the non-Algonquin film in this category and give it a new category or shall we rename the category to Category:Algonquian-language films? Currently, there is a request to populate this category. CJLippert 01:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
This is more by way of an FYI than anything, I guess. As part of an effort to improve the coverage of Alaska Natives both for this project & WP:ALASKA, yesterday I created Category:Indigenous languages of Alaska, got all relevant languages in Alaska sorted into it, created pages where needed (for example, to differentiate between "people" & "language"), added language infoboxes for almost all of them (a very few already had one), & in most cases also added info based on writeups at the Alaska Native Language Center, Yukon Native Language Centre, Ethnologue. Still a bit of clean-up to go, but I'm really pleased with what I've accomplished. Now I'm heading into the rather frightening work of trying to sort out all the weirdnesses that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) has wrought that makes Alaska look so different from the Lower 48 of the U.S. Wish me luck. --Yksin 02:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
In the last few days I've done a significant rewrite/rework of the Wendigo article. It's inappropriate for me to rate it myself, then; but I don't think my original "stub" rating applies anymore. If anyone wanted to take a look at it and give it a new rating, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks! --Miskwito 03:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I was pecking away at the Category:Unassessed Indigenous peoples of North America articles and noticed something. It seems about a quarter of the articles are listed alphabetically by their names and about three-quarters of the articles are listed under "T" as Talk:XXXX, though all are shown as the Talk pages. I looked at the differences between the two and both types look identical with the {{NorthAmNative}} template in their Talk pages. Can anyone figure out why so many are being listed under "Talk"? Thanks. CJLippert 05:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
The problem had been fixed at {{NorthAmNative}} using category sorting by {{PAGENAME}}, but I didn't notice the other template {{NorthAmNative/Anishinaabe}}. Both should be sorting properly now. –Pomte 01:58, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
This is a stub article on a tribal breeding program for native youth. You may want to add it to the project. I didn't want to just add the banner, as I am not associated with the project. Cheers. --Robbie Giles 18:30, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
I have requested Sioux Uprising be moved to a more neutral title. Please see the talkpage for further information if one is interested. Thanks, oncamera(t) 06:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Whereas much of Wikipedia is guilty of presentism, our handling of Native Americans seems to suffer from just the opposite, a sort of historical-anthropological filter.
For example, I recently wrote three articles about a prominent, contemporary Sin-Aikst family, siblings Bernie Whitebear, Lawney Reyes, and Luana Reyes. There seems to be very little to tie them into in terms of contemporary "urban Indian" activism. And I noticed that our Nuu-chah-nulth article does not mention Joe David, a pretty notable artist, born 1946.
I've noticed that this is an issue in the handling of a lot of the Northwest tribes and, I have to suspect, those of other regions I don't know much about: we write about Native Americans from an anthropological point of view that we would never bring to discussing a European ethnicity, and we deal only with traditional cultures, completely ignoring present-day culture, even when personified by reasonably major figures. If there has been any significant writing in Wikipedia about "urban Indians" and/or about syncretic contemporary native culture, I've largely missed it. Is it out there somewhere?
I won't claim that this is exactly my element, but I assume that the revival and transformation of Native American life that I've seen around here in the thirty years I've lived in Seattle cannot be unique; Wikipedia seems to be doing a weak job of covering it. (I've noticed that there is definitely a difference in attitude here in Seattle to New York where I'm originally from. In museums in New York, Native American art was nearly always just attributed to what tribe the artist was from. Here, whenever possible, it's attributed to individuals, exactly as it would be for an artist of European background.) - Jmabel | Talk 08:40, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
Jim Thorpe has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:46, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
List of Native American Tribal Entities have been updated per the Federal Register, Volume 72, Number 55 dated March 22, 2007 (72 FR 13648). However, there are a lot of entries needing re-directs. Please assist in linking each and every list entry by creating an appropriate re-direct to the existing articles. Thanks. CJLippert 20:50, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to put this template on this project's radar. It needed to be made and nobody has said anything about it yet, so... yeah. - Freechild 06:13, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Hm. Makes me wonder if there should be, or already is, certain variations on that, e.g. category:Aboriginal land claims in Canada, which would have subcats ; we just way "Land Claims" and "aobiriginal rights (when including Metis and Inuit, othrewise "Indian rights" would jes' fine - I've onticed a shift back/to/from Indian vs. First Nations, and I think maybe it's going on south of the border; not in pc.acaemic-speak but in how, er, Indians themselves use it. Just thoughts; I can barely see this as my glasses are maybe in the lost and found at transit since last Friday, so I'll sign off; I like the category, and know there's a whole bunc hof canadian aticles that will need it, eithre etant or to be written ;and wondering about other cats on rights-related things e.g. land claims, with provincial subcats (BC's is a very differennt situations form the other provinces/territories, so there might also be perhaps Category:BC Treaty process participating government (cmberesome nuh?) but you get the idea....ok, Hi Phaedriel; still here so far; think this must be your first post in the wikiproject page since you're back (or I would have noticed). Hmmm. parting thought, concerning cats re Indian Rights(/struggle) it just popped to mind that there's, if you'll forgive me, "Indian otlaws", or rather rebels - "insurgents" as I pointed out the "attackers" at Talk:Battle of Seattle *1858) 1856 if that redlinks; can't rmember). All depending on how you look at it, but there's a particularly lrage number of those who were falsely charged and either did time or went on the run, or got hung or shot or whatever; i.e. those many who surrendered on terms of amnesty/truce only to be arrested and tried for murder; there's more than a few in history on both sides of the border; a lot of these guys just get Category:Native American leadersorCategory:First Nations leaders, e.g. Simon Gunanoot, whose is an interesting story btw, but because they were hunted and wanted me, it would seem a special category would be appropriate; what to call it I don't know....tegory:First Nations insurgents? BTW re Indian/Native American, what do I do about, say, people of mixed parentage in BC who aren't Metis, i.e. those we just used to call "halfbreeds" without any taint; there's really no other way to say it until Metis got applied across the board; but the original Metis as you can see form that page and its talkpage don't include the cdn constitutinal definition. I'm thinking of particula4r people in the history of BC/WA/OR/ID e.g. David McLoughlin, son of Dr. John, Frank Gott a half-St'at'imc war hero who died in a quarrel with a game warden when he cameback; Slumach, whose article I'll write before I'm gone, who was tried for the murder of a "Kanaka halfbred" (which could mean either half-white or half-Indian...of a mix of both and perhaps more...) named Louis Bee, but who also had this "lost" gold mine that anybody who went looking for in later years died in the course of the search (see - this will be added to Volacni Brown when I get around to it, as even though he had slumach's secret, he died (sluamch wnet to the gallows, it's debatahble if he was the killer; myths grew up over the years that he lured and murdered women, none of which happened or was in the press of his day; eerily, all this went down in the vicinity of the [[Robert Pickton}Pickton pig farm]]....a real creepy paralel now that I know about it. Anyway, I'm sure it's the case throughout the US - non-status people of nkown Indian blood (and I don't mean just Cher and Burt Reynolds ;-p); people who were/are culturally "half-breed"; depends on the culture; the late great artist Bill Reid (sculptor)/Bill Reid (artist) (whichever of those works) was only 1/16 Haida, and not raised in Haida culture; but whethr by Haida custom (as in Hawaii as it happens) or by adoption because of hte fvervour of his late-adopted/revived Haida-neess (his artwork was a pinnacle of hte modern revival) - he is considered full Haida....anyway, amazing I got this far for someone who can barely see the screeen...I'm going to eat my porridge and cottage cheese now (it's quite good with walnuts, banana and protein powder if you have any... Skookum1 08:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi all, I'm involved with Wikiproject Birds getting Common Raven up toward (hopefully) an FA. Was wondering if anyone had any references for Raven in North American mythology to slot into the bottom of the Common Raven and Raven (mythology) articles? Much appreciated in advance. cheers, Casliber | talk | contribs 01:44, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I added the article to this WikiProject. The article needs to be cleaned up, and I think it should be done by someone in this WikiProject. I found the article on a bot's new article watchlist for WikiProject Wisconsin. Cheers! Royalbroil 01:30, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I am interested in lending assistance to this project in the areas of law and advocacy. I have a Juris Doctor and have been active in American Indian Movement, Indian Right, and Indigenous peoples Rights for 29 years. I am new to Wikipedia so please for give any gaffes I have committed. Please email me with info on how to join, etc. Wabus44 12:44, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I was shocked to find no entry for prominent poet/writer Simon J. Ortiz, and just attempted to create one (although it's incomplete). There are many others on the Native writers list that have no article or are mere stubs/starts. The last part needed for the article I just wrote is a summary of Ortiz' most important works and their mark on Native lit. Your help with this would be most appreciated as I don't feel qualified to write a good general commentary on that as I haven't read enough of his work. Man, do we need help here w/ Native writers... Let's do it, people! Efrafra 06:29, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
I had some comments recently here in which I think out loud about the scope issues of Native Americans in the United States (and, by implication, related articles).—Nat Krause(Talk!·What have I done?) 16:56, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Can someone help fix the code in the {{NorthAmNative}} template? It's not working properly when placed in a banner shell. I left a more specific message on the talk page for the template about exactly what the problem is. I'd fix it myself but it's beyond my skills. I can see it not working, but I can't see where the issue is in the code. Miss Mondegreen | Talk 07:22, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
Jeffrey Vernon Merkey 04:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi guys. I just wanted you to know I've added a page where people will be putting requests for experts on the Indigenous peoples of North America, and began to identify such topics that have asked for experts: Category:Indigenous peoples of North America articles needing expert attention. This is part of the expert finding process. Goldenrowley 04:56, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
i'm trying to find the correct grammar for Jonayaiyin, for an article, not related with the wikiproject(The Maxnificent Seven).The real name can be quite distant.
Jonayaiyin:A skilled warrior in the Apache tribe's myths. He was said to battle the enemies of mankind.
I've added new articles on the remaining principal chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, and some pictures, so that there is now at least a stub on every principal chief the Nation has had since 1730. --Aaron Walden 20:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
I don't speak German, but I noticed there is a Wiki, in the German language devoted entirely to this subject. Indianer Wiki. --Aaron Walden 04:25, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
The Pacific Northwest article's history section has been expanded on, but still lacks even a paragraph on the indigenous people.
Can someone more knowledgeable than I spend a little time on that? Thanks.
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X ile 03:46, 16 June 2007 (UTC) - Talk
Template:Infobox Ethnic group is currently being used for some US tribal sovereignties, eg: Navajo Nation. It's a bad fit for Canadian First Nations, where key statistics are things like government structure, establishment date, area, population, etc. I've thrown Template:Infobox country up on Tsawwassen First Nation, Kwantlen First Nation, Semiahmoo First Nation, and Squamish Nation just to see how it looks (there's precedent for using Infobox country on non-countries, eg: Wales, Hong Kong, European Union). I think it's a step in the right direction, but this project should work with WP:CANADA to customize the template. Vagary 20:43, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
What are these articles: Sewan mnana and Rustic kofos? For the "Rustic kofos," it states it is a Polish translation of the Ojibwe word "Sewan mnana" but I don't know of any words in Anishinaabemowin that sounds even remotely close to this... even with syncope into consideration. In the Freelang Ojibwe master database (an not the downloadable modules from the site), I have the ability to look things up based on "how it sounds" in Ojibwe rather than the "double vowel" spelling and I had no "hits" with "z?o?n" search (for the "sewan") or with "m?n?n" (for the "mnana") that had the terms "sleep", "dream," "steal," "stolen," "stop," or "death". I did the similar from English to Ojibwe and other than the word for "sleepless" ("nibaasiiwin": does not sleep), I had not "hits" resembling "sewan" or "mnana". In addition both articles seem to lack references. Have anyone heard of this? Maybe it is a term not found in Anishinaabemowin and was misattributed to an Ojibwe phrase. Help appreciated. CJLippert 22:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Bizarrely I found a reference to this on Google Earth at 45°10'12.77"N 82°34'12.98"E - at a Chinese railways station... and a photo of Adolf Hitler and Wittgenstein...??? Comments by Anonymous User Special:Contributions/213.162.106.145 on 22:43, 1 July 2007.
Google Earth shows the article only because the coordinates were given in the article for that station in the remote western China. The picture of Hitler and Wittgenstein is unconfirmed, but I have heard of them being classmates, so the photo may be real, but the picture doesn't belong in the articles in question; it belongs in the article for Wittgenstein. I had put in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sewan mnana and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rustic kofos and bunch of us there tried to figure out these two articles, and none of us could, other than we determined they did not have an Ojibwe or Polish names. One suggested maybe the "Sewan mnana" was Spanish, which『sueño mañana』would sort of sound like it. CJLippert 13:23, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry if I've missed this somewhere else, but I'm curious if there are standards for terminology. Things like referring to the time before colonization as pre-colonization, pre-white, pre-history, etc. Murderbike 21:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
I've started writing this article in my sandbox, and wanted to open up to advice from folks here. I'm not Yavapai, and was raised by US public education, but am trying to be aware of slips in terminology that can make an article bad. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Murderbike 21:15, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
So I left the "population" section of the infobox blank, because it seemed really hard to measure beyond reservation population, and it seems ridiculous to only include a reservation population. Anyone got advice? Murderbike 22:24, 4 July 2007 (UTC)