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.

Purpose
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
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.

Articles requested

 * 1) Willie Lavallee
 * 2) Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Sub-Tribes (currently redirect)
 * 3) Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians (currently redirect)
 * 4) Andréa Ledding
 * 5) Ote Emathla (or Jumper) (father of John Jumper (Seminole chief))
 * 6) Timpooche Barnard
 * 7) Pedro Bissonette
 * 8)
 * 9) Ned Hatathli
 * 10) John Konapot (or Pophnehonnuhwoh, Captain John Konkapot)
 * 11) Oktarharsars Harjo (or Oktarharsars Sands)
 * 12) Matthew Mudeater
 * 13) Robert Armstrong (Canada, born 1849)
 * 1) Ned Hatathli
 * 2) John Konapot (or Pophnehonnuhwoh, Captain John Konkapot)
 * 3) Oktarharsars Harjo (or Oktarharsars Sands)
 * 4) Matthew Mudeater
 * 5) Robert Armstrong (Canada, born 1849)
 * 1) Robert Armstrong (Canada, born 1849)

Redlinked entries in List of Native American politicians

 * 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

 * Concise Encyclopedia of the American Indian
 * Encyclopedia of Native American Biography
 * Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, 1492-1890

Progress update on our articles
As of, there are ' articles within the scope of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, of which ' are featured. This makes up % of the articles on Wikipedia and % of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are  pages in the project.

Goals

 * 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
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.
 * List of

Essays and Guidelines

 * 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 Wikipedia

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


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

Style Guides
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
 * Reporter's Indigenous Terminology Guide
 * "So you need an Indigenous Expert... Start here"
 * NAJA AP Style Guide
 * More reporting guides, on water protectors arrested at actions, etc.


 * Some example of WP:RS publications and media outlets that capitalize Indigenous when referring to Indigenous people (not a complete list, by any means):
 * The New York Times
 * Chicago Tribune
 * Los Angeles Times
 * The Christian Science Monitor
 * Forbes
 * Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC):
 * The Guardian

Reference books

 * 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.
 * Poser, Bill. (2006). The Names of the First Nations Languages of British Columbia.

Indigenous press reference sources
To assist in finding reliable sources for referencing articles on Indigenous topics and news.
 * List of Indigenous newspapers in North America
 * List of Indigenous periodicals in Canada
 * Native American Tribal Resources and Newspapers: Online U.S. Tribal Newsletters and Newspapers (from OSU Edmon Low Library)

Tools

 * 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 history
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.

Parentage

 * WikiProject Ethnic groups

Descendant Wikiprojects

 * WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America/Anishinaabe
 * WikiProject Native languages of California
 * Canadian Aboriginal Languages Wikipedia Coordination

Similar Wikiprojects

 * WikiProject Indigenous peoples of the Americas
 * WikiProject Mexican-Americans/Chicanos
 * WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia
 * WikiProject Mesoamerica
 * WikiProject Endangered languages