Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America

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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.

PurposeEdit

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.

ScopeEdit

This project aims to encompass all historic, ethnic, and cultural aspects of the many groups collectively described as Indigenous peoples of North America, including Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Kalaallit of Greenland, Native Americans in the United States, and indigenous peoples of Mexico (parts of Mexico within the Mesoamerican culture areas are often excluded from North America).

A special note for our First Nations, American Indian, Native American, and Indigenous contributorsEdit

We welcome all people of American Indian, Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, mestizo, and other Indigenous backgrounds 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.)

Articles requestedEdit

Willie Lavallee
Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Sub-Tribes (currently redirect)
Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians (currently redirect)
Andréa Ledding [1][2]
Ote Emathla (or Jumper) (father of John Jumper (Seminole chief)) [3]
John Saiowisakeron Fire [Wikidata]
Jake Ohnehtotake Fire [Wikidata]
Ray Tehanetorens Fadden [Wikidata]
Arthur Montour [Wikidata]
Robert Burnette [Wikidata]
Timpooche Barnard [4]
Pedro Bissonette [5]
William Blackbird [Wikidata] [6]
Douglas Mitchell George-Kanentiio [Wikidata]
Ned Hatathli
John Konapot (or Pophnehonnuhwoh, Captain John Konkapot) [7]
Oktarharsars Harjo (or Oktarharsars Sands) [8]
Matthew Mudeater [9] [10]
Robert Armstrong (Canada, born 1849) [11] [12]

Redlinked entries in List of Native American politiciansEdit

Lists of missing articlesEdit

Progress update on our articlesEdit

As of 6 June 2023, there are 13,685 articles within the scope of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, of which 29 are featured. This makes up 0.21% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0.28% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 34,870 pages in the project.

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Our articles by categoryEdit

WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America

WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America articles

GoalsEdit

Provide a centralized resource guide of all related topics in Wikipedia, as well as spearhead the effort to improve and develop them.
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.
Standardize articles about different tribes, personalities, and (when possible) historical events and cultural aspects.
Verify historical accuracy and neutrality of all articles within the scope of the project.
Create, expand and cleanup related articles.

General Strategy and Discussion forumEdit

List of all subpages of this page

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.

ResourcesEdit

Essays and GuidelinesEdit

Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities - what category does that bio belong in? What to do with the person claiming a "WP:CHEROKEEPRINCESS" grandmother?

Manual of Style and Policy on WikipediaEdit

MOS:CITIZEN, MOS:NATIONALITY and MOS:ETHNICITY are direct links to the Context section of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography, which includes this under Nationality Examples:

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:

Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎳᏍᎩ ᎠᏍᎦᏯᏗᎯ, romanized: Atsilasgi Asgayadihi; November 18, 1945 – April 6, 2010) was a Native American (Cherokee Nation) activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

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

WP:TRIBE is the shortcut to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes) and also covers many of issues addressed above.

Style GuidesEdit

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

From the Associated Press

AP changes writing style to capitalize ″b″ in Black. By The Associated Press, June 19, 2020. "The news organization will also now capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place."

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

Some example of WP:RS publications and media outlets that capitalize "Indigenous" when referring to Indigenous people (not a complete list, by any means)

External linksEdit

Tribal newspapers, TV, journals, contacts - even if not necessarily WP:RS, if there might be useful info, resources or links therein, add it here.

Reference booksEdit

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.

Arts and ArtistsEdit

Everett, Deborah (2008). Encyclopedia of Native American Artists. Artists of the American mosaic, ISSN 1939-1218. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313337628.
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.

StatsEdit

Indigenous peoples of North America articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA	2	3	8	13			2	28
FL				1				1
A							1	1
GA		7	22	42			43	114
B	10	62	102	139	2		287	602
C	17	136	257	591	9		1,070	2,080
Start	12	119	533	1,531	34		2,891	5,120
Stub		14	113	1,437	45	1	2,022	3,632
List	2	5	15	51	14		119	206
NA		1	6	18	3,713		8	3,746
Assessed	43	347	1,056	3,823	3,817	1	6,443	15,530
Unassessed				3			1,894	1,897
Total	43	347	1,056	3,826	3,817	1	8,337	17,427
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 57,763			Ω = 4.99

ToolsEdit

Main tool page: toolserver.org

Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles
Google book tool - Converts bare long Google book url's into short {{cite book}} format.

Project origin and historyEdit

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.

ParentageEdit

WikiProject Ethnic groups

Descendant WikiprojectsEdit

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Watchlist generatorEdit

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

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