Talk:T'Sou-ke Nation

Notes, citations, references
Greetings! I came to the page having seen a great article in the Globe & Mail about various environmental and economic development initiatives, which I wanted to share here.

When looking at the page, which already has a lot of great information on it, I noticed the formatting of references has them such that they are noted under three different titles. Also, right now a footnote leads to a shortened reference name, which is a bit unclear for the reader, as it doesn't give the full citation.

I would propose cleaning up the citation features on the article putting them all in one place, using named references rather than a group of references. That way the full citation will link to each footnote at the time it is used. Anyone have strong feelings or thoughts about this?

Canadianknowledgelover (talk) 19:05, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Well, I just dug in a bit ... noticed the first reference which was used multiple times is now a dead link (was listed as "T'Souke Nation 2013", but the link was not to the homepage. I replaced the link to the homepage and gave it a named reference instead of the current setup.

The second reference was a link that I was forbidden to access: http://maps.fphlcc.ca/tsouke|institution=First Peoples' Heritage Language & Culture Council. However, I could find the same data on another link: http://www.temexw.org/TsoukeNation.htm, the Te'Mexw Treaty Association, which has some interesting historical material that I have added.

The treaty agreement page on the BC government website was also a dead link (it just went to a generic page on First Nations negotiations: This is it here if anyone wants to see: (citation|url=http://www.treaties.gov.bc.ca/itas_t'souke.html|title=T'Sou-ke Nation|series=Current Incremental Treaty Agreements (ITA)|institution=Ministry of Aboriginal Relations & Reconciliation|work=Government of BC|year=2013|accessdate=8 December 2013|ref={{sfnref|Government of BC|2013). This was the source for entering the treaty process in 1995, which I wasn't able to find another link for. I found more info on the treaty process on the Te'Mexw Treaty Assoc page. Also found a new link on the BC Govt website: http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/topic.page?id=9C408BDEE1194C38B0103F02A550FE43&title=T%27Sou-ke%20Nation. Might as well link the agreement itself: http://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/topic/9EFBD86DA302A0712E6559BDB2C7F9DD/agreements/ita_tsouke.pdf.

This was the only comment in a Note, discussing information about the health care organizations: "By 1996, spurred by changes in terms of public policy and governance of First Nations, Health Canada's Vancouver Island Zone Office closed, and 29 Vancouver Island Coast-Salish and Kwakwaka'wakw Chiefs mobilized to create what would become the Inter-Tribal Health Authority." I'm not sure this is an appropriate use of notes. I found the website of the organization. I created a separate subsection about the health care services. I found a new link for the intertribal health authority, the existing one was dead; its history site has some of the info, here: http://www.itha.ca/insidepages/aboutus/history.html.

The governance section had this as one of its notes: "There are three principal methods by which First Nations communities currently select their chiefs and councils. They are: elections pursuant to the electoral provisions of the Indian Act and accompanying Indian Band Election Regulations; community-based leadership selection processes held according to custom; and elections conducted pursuant to the provisions of self-government agreements." This is a quotation from the Legislative Summary of the bill about the term of office for chiefs and so on ... it doesn't really relate to this Nation because the page now says it works under the Indian Act. I'll include the reference to the legislative summary as a footnote though. The other reference, to the interesting Tammegami article, didn't apply to this section. (That's the article that discusses the initiatives making this quite a green community.)

I updated the election to 2014. There were some historical notes: "In the early 1980s Larry Underwood was elected as councillor and has been re-elected several times including in the 2012 elections. Bonnie Hill was elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2012." Neither are now on council, so I will simply keep it noted here, as there is no reference about these former councillors.

Canadianknowledgelover (talk) 01:42, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Spelling of name
I noticed that the T'Sou-ke Nation spells its name with a capital "S" rather than the small "s" in the article title. The way to fix this is to move the page. I have done so.

Canadianknowledgelover (talk) 19:39, 31 August 2014 (UTC)