Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America/Article Classification/Archive

'This archive is intended to be preserved as a reference guide for future assessment and classification, and new information should not be added here. For more information about the new Classification and assessment system, as well as migrating already assessed articles into the new lists, please see the new Article Classification and Article Classification/Migrating'. Phaedriel 00:16, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Partial list of pages covered by the project
(Broken into sections for easy editing)

Nations, tribes and groups
If possible, the list below should be coordinated with the Classification of indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada.


 * Suggestion: political organizations should be broken off from tribes/groups as such, i.e. if there are separate government pages.Skookum1 06:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Further to previous comments I'm creating a new table below, just above the reservations/pueblos/communities listing, which will be the regional/national governments, i.e. not at the community level of "nation" (those are in the reservations/pueblos list) but at combined/large-scale level; NOT the same thing as the regional ethno articles, even though they may necessarily overlap.Skookum1 19:21, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

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Regional/National Governments and Organizations
Canadian content in this listing is per the First Nations Information Project Directory, which may be out of date. This table may be combined with the Reservations/Pueblos table.Skookum1 01:58, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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Indigenous leaders and personalities
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Culture and linguistics
Suggestion: another colour-code for entries which combine people/nation and language and should be separated; currently given blue start class and a few higher than that, but should be "marked" in the table as projects for delineation/separation. Would do this myself at present but fielding idea at other editors first....Skookum1 18:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

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Historical
A much more extensive list found at the List of United States Military History Events should eventually be integrated below here; and all on it should have stubs, since many don't. Some redlinks in place may turn out to be redirects to other items already listed; I'm not qualified to decide which name should be used, or in fact what connects to what. Tasks needed should probably include redirect possibilities in all cases when known, from spelling variations to alternate names. Canadian, Mexican and Russian American Wars should all be listed; a separate section on wars between native peoples (if such articles exist) might be created, or they could be put here as wellSkookum1 06:37, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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Archæological and Cultural
This should be broken into two separate tables, on historical, the other archaeological; if there are articles that are both they can be placed in both tables w. comments.Skookum1 07:38, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Question to group: What to do with what's listed on Archaeo sites in the US (Category; pick and choose, or should all aboriginal sites become listed here exhaustively? Presumably, yes.Skookum1 18:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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Reservations, Reserves, Pueblos, etc.
See notes following table.

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Note on Canada: There needs to be a way of grouping these, as there are so many; and in some cases one "nation" is a subdivision of another "nation", e.g. the Tskwaylaxw First Nation, which is a subset of the Stl'atl'imx Nation's Lillooet Tribal Council. Already there's also some articles on individual reserves WITHIN a larger nation, apparently as placename articles; so some sort of guideline as to how large something is, and how it can be grouped with others, needs to be worked out; otherwise the following table will have 10,000 entries.Skookum1 18:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Please see List of Aboriginal communities in Canada to assess which communities need articles started. CJLippert 16:26, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, they all do at some point; and many small communities already have articles, apparently written by people from them, which I've been stubbing and catting today; rule of thumb here is that the individual Indian Bands/Nations, i.e. at the community level, I'll put here; Tribal Councils (large-scale regional governments, that is) will go in the nations/ethnicities table.Skookum1 05:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * re:List of Aboriginal communities in Canada. From what I can see of the list it's a listing of reserves which have residential communities, although often the reserve-name itself is cited rather than that of the community or government per se.  I'll amend the List of Aboriginal communities in Canada to conform to the various online listings, such as the Directory of First Nations in BC which I used in the first phase of expanding the following table, and will use to build the regional governments table mentioned in the note following.Skookum1 00:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Large-scale band/national governments will be in a separate table. These include smaller nations listed in the following table, and there will be some overlap with the nations/groups/tribes table above (just as there is between that table and the language table...and this one, for that matter). Ultimately the band/government articles should be separate from ethnicity/people/culture from language (hard to separate culture and language, but as long as language pages are only intelligible to people with linguistics degrees culture should/has to be with ethnicity/people; my two bits anyway).Skookum1 00:20, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Miscellaneous related topics
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Indigenous peoples of Mexico
What about tables similar to those above for Canada/US, i.e. for personalities, or for organizations, political events, battles etc? e.g. Tlatelolco massacre, Zapatista, Benito Juarez.

Presumably pre-Columbian civilizations/personalities belong in this project, or not? Was or was not Cuauhtemoc an indio?
 * Note, the related WikiProjects WP Mesoamerica and WP Aztec are actively focussed on many of the historical civilizations and cultures of Mexico (some listed here), but also extending through much of Central America as well.

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