User:Jwmc2077/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.



Option 1

Article title

Rendezvous (fur trade)

Article Evaluation

This article is a good start on the topic of fur trade rendezvous. However, there are two key ways to improve upon it. Such as.


 * The section on the rocky mountain fur trade underrepresents the number of Native Americans involved in the fur rendezvous.
 * Does not include the Alaskan Fur Rendezvous
 * The section on modern rendezvous lacks any details on modern rendezvous.
 * All sections lack detail on the significance of rendezvous or the activities that took place. Most descriptions are vague.

Sources

Becker, R. J. (2013). Camp composition and the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade: Estimating the native presence at the early rendezvous and winter camps, 1825–1830. History and Anthropology, 24(3), 322–343. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2012.761212

Wikipedia page on Fur Rendezvous Festival

Option 2

Article title

Ecological imperialism

Article Evaluation


 * There is currently a discussion on whether or not the article should be merged into an article of the book of the same title by Alfred Crosby. I’d like to weigh in that there should be separate articles that discuss the book and the theory.
 * The Native Americans in this article are portrayed as having been acted upon, and their agency and viewpoint are missing.

Sources

Kay, J. (1984). The fur trade and Native American population growth. Ethnohistory, 31(4), 265. https://doi.org/10.2307/482713

Option 3

Article title

The article does not yet exist, but there is an article with a similar title about a play of the same title, “Women of the Fur Trade”

Article Evaluation

Female and Native American voices are absent from a lot of articles on the fur trade. An article should exist that shares these voices, viewpoints, and contributions.

Sources

Kirk, S. V. (1984). The role of Native women in the Fur Trade Society of Western Canada, 1670-1830. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 7(3), 9. https://doi.org/10.2307/3346234