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We are Wikipedians who have formed a project to improve, maintain, and organize the information in articles related to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. We hope this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. This page and its subpages contain our suggestions and discussions.

If you would like to help, please introduce yourself on our talk page and add your name as a participant! Or, jump in and expand a stub article with reliable sources. Feel free to ask for help ...

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.

A special note for our Indigenous contributors

We welcome all Indigenous peoples of North America and beyond who are reading this page! We hope you enjoy participating in Wikipedia. We are especially happy to have your help in improving the diversity of Wikipedia coverage. Please feel free to leave a note on the talk page of this WikiProject, or at Wikipedia:Systemic bias if you run into problems here. And yes, it is possible to start your own Wikipedia in your own language. We'd be happy to support you in this. (Leave a note if you need help setting up a new language, or with fonts.)

Progress update on our articles

As of 25 November 2024, there are 14,294 articles within the scope of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, of which 32 are featured. This makes up 0.21% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0.29% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 38,152 pages in the project.

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99% complete Backlog: Unassessed Indigenous peoples of North America articles Goal: 0 articles Current: 18 articles Initial: 1,880 articles

Our articles by category

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WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America articles

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

• List of all subpages of this page

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.

Resources

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 Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography, which includes this under Nationality Examples:

Native American and Indigenous Canadian status is based on citizenship, not race. Indigenous people's citizenship can be listed parenthetically, or as a clause after their names.

For example:

• Wilma Pearl Mankiller (Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎳᏍᎩ ᎠᏍᎦᏯᏗᎯ, romanized: Atsilasgi Asgayadihi; November 18, 1945 – April 6, 2010) was a Native American (Cherokee Nation) activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

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

Style Guides

See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles § Capitalization

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 (now Indigenous Journalists Association)

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

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 [1]
• Chicago Tribune [2]
• Los Angeles Times [3]
• The Christian Science Monitor [4]
• Forbes [5]
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC): [6]
• The Guardian [7]

Reference books

Further information: Bibliography of Canadian Aboriginals

• Phillip M. White (October 2004). Bibliography of Native American bibliographies. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31941-9.
• 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.
• Sonneborn, Liz (2007). A to Z of American Indian Women. A to Z of women (Rev. ed.). New York: Facts On File. ISBN 9780816066940.
• Younging, Gregory. (2018) Elements of Indigenous style : a guide for writing by and about Indigenous Peoples, ISBN 9781550597165

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)

Native American and First Nations law resources

United States

• Indian Law Research Guides - including information on tribal recognition and enrollment, citizenship & borders, repatriation, environmental law concerning indigenous people, etc.
• Indian Law Research Sources
• National Indian Law Library
• Indian Law Resource Center
• Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project
• Native American Rights Fund
• National Congress of American Indians

Canada

• Aboriginal Law and Indigenous Laws (Canada)
• Indigenous Law Centre (Canada)

External links

• Tribal newspapers, TV, journals, contacts - even if not necessarily WP:RS, if there might be useful info, resources or links therein, add it here.

Arts and Artists

• Everett, Deborah (2008). Encyclopedia of Native American Artists. Artists of the American mosaic, ISSN 1939-1218. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313337628.
• Reno, Dawn E. (1995). Contemporary Native American Artists. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Alliance Publishing. ISBN 0964150964.
• Roger Matuz, ed. (1998). St. James Guide to Native North American Artists. Detroit: St. James Press. ISBN 1558622217.

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 [8][9]
5. Ote Emathla (or Jumper) (father of John Jumper (Seminole chief)) [10]
6. John Saiowisakeron Fire
7. Jake Ohnehtotake Fire
8. Ray Tehanetorens Fadden
9. Arthur Montour
10. Robert Burnette
11. Timpooche Barnard [11]
12. Pedro Bissonette [12]
13. William Blackbird [13]
14. Douglas Mitchell George-Kanentiio
15. Ned Hatathli
16. John Konapot (or Pophnehonnuhwoh, Captain John Konkapot) [14]
17. Oktarharsars Harjo (or Oktarharsars Sands) [15]
18. Robert Armstrong (Canada, born 1849) [16] [17]
19. Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

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

Stats

Indigenous peoples of North America articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total FA 1 3 8 16 3 31 FL 1 1 A 1 1 GA 8 20 54 50 132 B 13 74 127 219 3 325 761 C 15 157 336 808 3 1,312 2,631 Start 5 114 612 1,952 1 3,603 6,287 Stub 12 161 1,647 1 1 2,358 4,180 List 5 7 21 66 153 252 Category 3,705 3,705 NA 5 8 37 1,019 1,069 Assessed 39 380 1,294 4,800 4,732 1 7,804 19,050 Unassessed 1 17 18 Total 39 380 1,294 4,801 4,732 1 7,821 19,068 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 69,587 Ω = 4.96

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 Indigenous languages of California
• Canadian Aboriginal Languages Wikipedia Coordination

Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Endangered languages
• WikiProject Indigenous peoples of Australia
• WikiProject Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• WikiProject Mesoamerica
• WikiProject United States/Hispanic and Latino Americans task force/Mexican-American task force