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We are Wikipedians who have formed a project to improve, maintain, and organize the information in articles related to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. We hope this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. This page and its subpages contain our suggestions and discussions.

If you would like to help, please introduce yourself on our talk page and add your name as a participant! Or, jump in and expand a stub article with reliable sources. Feel free to ask for help ...

WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America descended from the WikiProject Ethnic groups.

It covers all information on Indigenous peoples of the Americas available at Wikipedia, with the purpose of providing a unified coordination of all articles, stubs, categories and lists on the topic and closely related subjects.

Purpose

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The aim of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America is:

  • to organize our content,
  • to improve our content when possible,
  • to detect missing and incomplete articles and either create them or enhance them,
  • and to provide a coordinated effort in this direction.

Scope

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This project aims to encompass all current, historic, ethnic, legal, and cultural aspects of the many groups collectively described as Indigenous peoples of North America, including Greenlandic Inuit, Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Native Americans in the United States, Indigenous peoples of Mexico, Indigenous peoples of Central America, and Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.

A special note for our Indigenous contributors

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  We welcome all Indigenous peoples of North America and beyond who are reading this page! We hope you enjoy participating in Wikipedia. We are especially happy to have your help in improving the diversity of Wikipedia coverage. Please feel free to leave a note on the talk page of this WikiProject, or at Wikipedia:Systemic bias if you run into problems here. And yes, it is possible to start your own Wikipedia in your own language. We'd be happy to support you in this. (Leave a note if you need help setting up a new language, or with fonts.)

Progress update on our articles

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As of 19 April 2025, there are 14,457 articles within the scope of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, of which 35 are featured. This makes up 0.21% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0.31% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 28,914 pages in the project.

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Backlog: Unassessed Indigenous peoples of North America articles
Goal: 0 articles
Current: 12 articles
Initial: 1,880 articles
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Our articles by category

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WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America articles

Goals

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  1. Provide a centralized resource guide of all related topics in Wikipedia, as well as spearhead the effort to improve and develop them.
  2. Create uniform templates that serve to identify all related articles as part of this project, as well as stub templates to englobe all related stubs under specific categories.
  3. Standardize articles about different tribes, personalities, and (when possible) historical events and cultural aspects.
  4. Verify historical accuracy and neutrality of all articles within the scope of the project.
  5. Create, expand and cleanup related articles.

General Strategy and Discussion forum

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If possible, the natural place to be used as the discussion forum is the project's talk page. Whenever needed, discussion can be moved to a more appropriate place regarding a particular matter.

Resources

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Essays and Guidelines

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Manual of Style and Policy on Wikipedia

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Native American and Indigenous Canadian status is based on citizenship, not race. Indigenous people's citizenship can be listed parenthetically, or as a clause after their names.[a]

For example:

  1. ^ For additional guidelines on naming conventions and sourcing Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities, see Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities.

Style Guides

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See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles § Capitalization

Style Guides on Indigenous terminology and other issues. Like Native American, Indigenous is capitalized when referring to people.

From the Associated Press
From APA style
  • APA Style - Racial and Ethnic Identity. Section 5.7 of the APA Publication Manual, Seventh Edition, September 2019.

    Racial and ethnic groups are designated by proper nouns and are capitalized. ... capitalize terms such as Native American, Hispanic, and so on. Capitalize Indigenous and Aboriginal whenever they are used. Capitalize Indigenous People or Aboriginal People when referring to a specific group (e.g., the Indigenous Peoples of Canada), but use lowercase for people when describing persons who are Indigenous or Aboriginal (e.g., "the authors were all Indigenous people but belonged to different nations").

From The Chicago Manual of Style
  • Capitalization: 'We would capitalize Indigenous in both contexts: that of Indigenous people and groups, on the one hand, and Indigenous culture and society, on the other. Lowercase indigenous would be reserved for contexts in which the term does not apply to Indigenous people in any sense; for example, indigenous plant and animal species.'
From the Native American Journalists Association (now Indigenous Journalists Association)
Some example of WP:RS publications and media outlets that capitalize Indigenous when referring to Indigenous people (not a complete list, by any means)

Reference books

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Further information: Bibliography of Canadian Aboriginals
  • Phillip M. White (October 2004). Bibliography of Native American bibliographies. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31941-9.
  • Fagan, Brian M. (2000). Ancient North America: The archaeology of a continent (3rd ed.). New York: Thames and Hudson.
  • Landar, Herbert. (1973). The tribes and languages of North America: A checklist. In T. A. Sebeok (Ed.), Current trends in linguistics: Linguistics in North America (Vol. 10, pp. 1253-1441). The Hague: Mouton.
  • Sturtevant, William C. (Ed.). (1978-present). Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 1-20). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. (Vols. 1-3, 16, 18-20 not yet published).
  • Poser, Bill. (2006). The Names of the First Nations Languages of British Columbia.
  • Sonneborn, Liz (2007). A to Z of American Indian Women. A to Z of women (Rev. ed.). New York: Facts On File. ISBN 9780816066940.
  • Younging, Gregory. (2018) Elements of Indigenous style : a guide for writing by and about Indigenous Peoples, ISBN 9781550597165

Indigenous press reference sources

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To assist in finding reliable sources for referencing articles on Indigenous topics and news.

Native American and First Nations law resources

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Main article: List of Native American and First Nations law resources

United States

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Canada

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Arts and Artists

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  • Everett, Deborah (2008). Encyclopedia of Native American Artists. Artists of the American mosaic, ISSN 1939-1218. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313337628.
  • "Native American Artists Resource Collection". Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives. Phoenix, AZ: Heard Museum.
  • Reno, Dawn E. (1995). Contemporary Native American Artists. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Alliance Publishing. ISBN 0964150964.
  • Roger Matuz, ed. (1998). St. James Guide to Native North American Artists. Detroit: St. James Press. ISBN 1558622217.

Articles requested

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  1. Willie Lavallee
  2. Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Sub-Tribes (currently redirect)
  3. Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians (currently redirect)
  4. Andréa Ledding [8][9]
  5. Ote Emathla (or Jumper) (father of John Jumper (Seminole chief)) [10]
  6. John Saiowisakeron Fire [Wikidata]
  7. Jake Ohnehtotake Fire [Wikidata]
  8. Ray Tehanetorens Fadden [Wikidata]
  9. Arthur Montour [Wikidata]
  10. Robert Burnette [Wikidata]
  11. Timpooche Barnard [11]
  12. Pedro Bissonette [12]
  13. William Blackbird [Wikidata] [13]
  14. Douglas Mitchell George-Kanentiio [Wikidata]
  15. Ned Hatathli
  16. John Konapot (or Pophnehonnuhwoh, Captain John Konkapot) [14]
  17. Oktarharsars Harjo (or Oktarharsars Sands) [15]
  18. Robert Armstrong (Canada, born 1849) [16] [17]
  19. Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
  20. Vincent Craig
  21. Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes (NOTE: the deletion log shows multiple past attempts to create such an article — perhaps a WP:REFUND should be the first step?)

Redlinked entries in List of Native American politicians

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  1. Albert P. Adams
  2. George Adams (Washington politician)
  3. Billy Akers
  4. Nels A. Anderson (alt. Nels A. Anderson, Jr.)
  5. Don Barlow
  6. William Bishop (Washington politician)
  7. Ray Christiansen
  8. Joseph Chuckwuk
  9. Matthew Dana II
  10. Larry T. Davis
  11. Chuck Degnan
  12. Frank Degnan
  13. Charles Fagerstrom
  14. Frank R. Ferguson
  15. Charles Franz
  16. Phillip Guy
  17. Jimmy Hoffman
  18. Andrew Hope
  19. Jimmy Huntington
  20. Percy Ipalook
  21. Jack Jackson, Sr.
  22. Axel C. Johnson
  23. Frank G. Johnson
  24. Grace A. Johnson
  25. Richard Lerblanc
  26. Don Long (politician)
  27. Eileen Panigeo MacLean
  28. Carl M. Morgan
  29. Roxanne Murphy
  30. Ed Naughton
  31. Irene Nicholia
  32. Larry Peterson (politician)
  33. George Pierre
  34. Christopher Roberts (politician)
  35. Leo Schaeffer
  36. Frank See
  37. Martin Seversen
  38. April J. Silversmith
  39. Jacob Stalker
  40. John Starks (politician)
  41. Daniel Sullivan (Oklahoma politician)
  42. John Tennant (Washington politician)
  43. Tony Vaska
  44. Kay Wallis
  45. Tim Wallis (politician)
  46. James K. Wells
  47. Alfred Widmark

Lists of missing articles

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Stats

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Indigenous peoples of North America articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total
  FA 1 10 23 34
  FL 1 1
  A 1 1
  GA 9 21 83 21 134
B 12 75 129 237 3 326 782
C 16 164 354 857 3 1,329 2,723
Start 4 111 621 2,030 2 3,589 6,357
Stub 11 158 1,656 3 1 2,322 4,151
List 5 7 22 72 155 261
Category 3,721 3,721
NA 5 6 35 1,048 1,094
Assessed 37 383 1,322 4,994 4,780 1 7,742 19,259
Unassessed 2 9 11
Total 37 383 1,322 4,996 4,780 1 7,751 19,270
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 70,189 Ω = 4.95

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Project origin and history

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When WikiProject Ethnic groups began in January 2004, this topic was badly lacking in quantity and quality. There were no uniform criteria regarding ethnic matters to be included in Wikipedia. Today, the situation is very different. As of 2013, Wikipedia contains exhaustive quanitites of information on many ethnic matters, and more resources and information are added daily. Organizing and coordinating this large volume of ethnic information remains a challenging task, and has resulted in the creation of new WikiProjects focused on specific ethnic groups.

As a great deal of work has been already done both within and outside WikiProject Ethnic groups, the task ahead looks less daunting than that it did in 2004, but no less important and immense for that reason.

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