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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 historic, ethnic, and cultural aspects of the many groups collectively described as Indigenous peoples of North America, including Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Kalaallit of Greenland, Native Americans in the United States, and indigenous peoples of Mexico (parts of Mexico within the Mesoamerican culture areas are often excluded from North America).

A special note for our First Nations, American Indian, Native American, and Indigenous contributors

We welcome all people of Indigenous, American Indian, Native American, and First Nations heritage 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.)

Articles requested

1. Willie Lavallee
2. Piscataway-Conoy Tribe of Maryland
3. Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Sub-Tribes (currently redirect)
4. Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians (currently redirect)
5. Da-ka-xeen Mehner
6. Wanda John-Kehewin [1]
7. Andréa Ledding [2][3]
8. Sandy Scofield [4]
9. Jean Baptiste Paul (Chief Thunderbird)[5][6][7]

Redlinked entries in List of Native American politicians

1. Albert P. Adams
2. George Adams (Washington politician)
3. Billy Akers
4. Charles G. Anderson
5. Nels A. Anderson (alt. Nels A. Anderson, Jr.)
6. Don Barlow
7. Jennifer Benally
8. Brian Bingham
9. William Bishop (Washington politician)
10. Ray Christiansen
11. Joseph Chuckwuk
12. Doug Cox (Oklahoma politician)
13. John E. Curtis
14. Matthew Dana II
15. Larry T. Davis
16. Chuck Degnan
17. Frank Degnan
18. Charles Fagerstrom
19. Frank R. Ferguson
20. William Fourkiller
21. Charles Franz
22. Phillip Guy
23. Adelheid Herrmann
24. Jimmy Hoffman
25. Andrew Hope
26. Eben Hopson
27. Jimmy Huntington
28. Percy Ipalook
29. Ed Iron Cloud III
30. Brenda Itta
31. Ivan M. Ivan
32. George Jacko
33. Jack Jackson, Sr.
34. Sandra D. Jeff
35. Axel C. Johnson
36. Frank G. Johnson
37. Grace A. Johnson
38. Jacob Laktonen
39. Richard Lerblanc
40. Don Long (politician)
41. Ken Lutrell
42. Eileen Panigeo MacLean
43. Jerry McPeak
44. Martin B. Moore
45. Carl M. Morgan
46. Roxanne Murphy
47. Ed Naughton
48. Irene Nicholia
49. John Nusunginya
50. Alvin Osterback
51. Larry Peterson
52. George Pierre
53. Anatasia Pittman
54. Christopher Roberts (politician)
55. John Sackett
56. Leo Schaeffer
57. Seneca Scott
58. Frank See
59. Martin Seversen
60. Jerry Shoemake
61. April J. Silversmith
62. Jacob Stalker
63. John Starks (politician)
64. Daniel Sullivan (Oklahoma politician)
65. John Tennant (Washington politician)
66. Tony Vaska
67. Kay Wallis
68. Tim Wallis (politician)
69. James K. Wells
70. Paul Wesselhoft
71. Alfred Widmark
72. Bill Williams (politician) (alt. Bill K. Williams)
73. Cory Williams (Oklahoma politician)
74. Jules Wright (politician) (alt. Jules W. Wright)
75. Fred Zharoff

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 21 June 2024, there are 14,089 articles within the scope of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, of which 31 are featured. This makes up 0.21% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0.28% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 37,518 pages in the project.

Click on [show] for progress bar for the Unassessed Indigenous peoples of North America articles
92% complete Backlog: Unassessed Indigenous peoples of North America articles Goal: 0 articles Current: 151 articles Initial: 1,880 articles

Our articles by category

WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America

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 First Nations identities - what category does that bio belong in? What to do with the person claiming a "WP:CHEROKEEPRINCESS" grandmother?

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.

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.

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.

Stats

Indigenous peoples of North America articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total FA 1 3 8 14 4 30 FL 1 1 A 1 1 GA 1 8 20 52 52 133 B 11 71 114 179 3 328 706 C 16 154 308 733 3 1,306 2,520 Start 6 117 598 1,814 1 3,611 6,147 Stub 14 140 1,617 1 1 2,387 4,160 List 4 6 20 59 151 240 Category 1 3,622 3,623 NA 5 11 35 986 2 1,039 Assessed 39 379 1,220 4,504 4,616 1 7,841 18,600 Unassessed 1 150 151 Total 39 379 1,220 4,505 4,616 1 7,991 18,751 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 68,160 Ω = 4.98

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
• Wikipedia: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
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Endangered languages