Talk:History of the Squamish people

Transformers (xxx)
I don't know what to put in the brackets to disambig that title - Transformers goes to, well, a big disambiguation page, currently missing these guys....if there's any of us regulars who's equipped to write such an article, it'd be you; I know some of the Sto:lo and St'at'imc stories, and recently found an Upper Nlaka'pamux or Secwepemc version of their journey into the Marble Canyon/Pavilion area very different from the one told from the Lillooet side....). Obviously the stories vary from people to people, but a general article is more than needed; it is de rigeur because of hte importance of these figtures; if Transformer Stone hasn't been written yet that's another wrothy one.  I know I know you've got too much work already; sorry; no rush on these just figuring you're the one equipped to write or at least start/frame them properly.Skookum1 (talk) 21:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * How about Transformers (mythology)? Are there more Transformer Stones (one being Chimney Rock (Canada))?--Qyd (talk) 16:24, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There are literally thousands, if you add them all up across the peoples of the region....Skookum1 (talk) 13:36, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Someone has created an article based on a version of the name of the primary transformer in Lummi, see Talk:Xelas. The usual form of this I've seen is Xals in Halqemeylem, with an underscore X and a bar over the [a] (or an accent?), pron. "Hails" with the s sibilant rather than z-like.  What name should be adopted for what amounts to a pan-regional, pan-cultural topic remains to be seen; Halqemeylem should prevail over Lummi, though....what the other languages' names for this are remains to be discovered.Skookum1 (talk) 12:06, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Article name
This article displays on my computer (WinXP running Firefox) as "Sḵwxwú7mesh history". I assume it's not supposed to have a number 7 in the middle - do I need a special font or something? Just curious, the page came up doing a search for "Serpent trail". Pterre (talk) 17:41, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No Sḵwxwú7mesh history is correct. The 7 is a glottal stop used in phonetics.  I believe it's a ? in the IPA.  OldManRivers (talk) 18:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Pre-Contact section
Coluld youadd something about ties to the Nooksack and Shishalh, also something about "Euclataws", Haida etc raids?Skookum1 (talk) 13:34, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Reverse name change
I tried to do that with my recent undo, but the name-move didn't undo itself; I know there are Wiki procedures against immediate moves back, but I also know page moves/renames are discussed on talkpages before going ahead. There has been LONg discussion about the appropriate names for Skwxwhu7mesh ethno articles, and other indigenous people articles in BC and Wiki-wide. I'll investigate later the procedure for undoing page renames, especially unconsulted non-consensual ones; but for now I'm having dinner and will go about my day. Please be more moderate in your edits and learn what's up; I notice that your accoutn is ENTIRELY new and only focussed on Skwxwu7mesh articles. That alone calls into question your right to perform name changes.Skookum1 (talk) 21:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Suggested other sections
I removed these empty sections and bullet points from the article today:
 * Two World Wars 1924-1955
 * The world wars, the depression, the reserve system, the laws against indigenous peoples.
 * Also the veterans who fought in the war.

Expo 86, 2010 Olympics, and Globalization. Plus, current cultural revival and other new history stuff. – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:28, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The fight for native rights 1955-1990
 * Colonization Re-imagined 1990-present
 * 1960s
 * Racism and prejudice
 * User:OldManRivers had outlined those in his intent to use Wikipedia as a platform to fully engage his people's history in Wikipedia, but he left because of the ongoing edit/name games and has thrown his hands up, feeling he's better off writing what he knows directly rather than having to deal with people who don't know the subject kibbitzing and squabbling with him....'nufff said.Skookum1 (talk) 09:46, 19 February 2014 (UTC)