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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 North America. 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 North America 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, Native American, and indigenous contributors

We welcome all people of indigenous, 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. Fish Carrier (Ojageght)
2. Willie Lavallee
3. Native American tribes in Maryland
4. Piscataway-Conoy Tribe of Maryland
5. Piscataway Conoy Confederacy and Sub-Tribes
6. Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians
7. Da-ka-xeen Mehner
8. California Rancheria Act
9. [add your request here]

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. Bill Beltz
8. Jennifer Benally
9. Brian Bingham
10. William Bishop (Washington politician)
11. Ray Christiansen
12. Joseph Chuckwuk
13. Doug Cox (Oklahoma politician)
14. John E. Curtis
15. Matthew Dana II
16. Larry T. Davis
17. Chuck Degnan
18. Frank Degnan
19. Charles Fagerstrom
20. Frank R. Ferguson
21. William Fourkiller
22. Charles Franz
23. Phillip Guy
24. Adelheid Herrmann
25. Jimmy Hoffman
26. Andrew Hope
27. Eben Hopson
28. Jimmy Huntington
29. Percy Ipalook
30. Ed Iron Cloud III
31. Brenda Itta
32. Ivan M. Ivan
33. George Jacko
34. Jack Jackson, Sr.
35. Sandra D. Jeff
36. Axel C. Johnson
37. Doreen Wonda Johnson
38. Frank G. Johnson
39. Grace A. Johnson
40. George Kipp III
41. Dan Kirby
42. Jacob Laktonen
43. Richard Lerblanc
44. Georgianna Lincoln
45. Don Long (politician)
46. Ken Lutrell
47. Jerry Mackie (politician)
48. Eileen Panigeo MacLean
49. Jerry McPeak
50. G. Bruce Meyers
51. Martin B. Moore
52. Carl M. Morgan
53. Roxanne Murphy
54. Alfred Nakak
55. Ed Naughton
56. Irene Nicholia
57. John Nusunginya
58. Alvin Osterback
59. Moses Paukan
60. Frank Peratrovich
61. Larry Peterson
62. George Pierre
63. Anatasia Pittman
64. Christopher Roberts (politician)
65. John Sackett
66. Leo Schaeffer
67. Seneca Scott
68. Frank See
69. Martin Seversen
70. Jerry Shoemake
71. April J. Silversmith
72. Jacob Stalker
73. John Starks (politician)
74. Daniel Sullivan (Oklahoma politician)
75. John Tennant (Washington politician)
76. Wayne Trottier
77. Tony Vaska
78. Kay Wallis
79. Tim Wallis (politician)
80. James K. Wells
81. Paul Wesselhoft
82. John Westdahl
83. Alfred Widmark
84. Bill Williams (politician) (alt. Bill K. Williams)
85. Cory Williams (Oklahoma politician)
86. Jules Wright (politician) (alt. Jules W. Wright)
87. 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 29 June 2016, there are 7003774000000000000♠7,740 articles within the scope of WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, of which 7001180000000000000♠18 are featured. This makes up 0.15% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0.23% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 7004186280000000000♠18,628 pages in the project.

Click on [show] for progress bar for the Unassessed Indigenous peoples of North America articles
99.7% complete Backlog: Unassessed Indigenous peoples of North America articles Goal: 0 articles Current: 6 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.

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

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.

References

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. 

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America/Resources

Artistry

• 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. 
• St. James Guide to Native North American Artists. Roger Matuz (ed.). Detroit: St. James Press. 1998. ISBN 1558622217. 

Stats

Indigenous peoples of North America pages by quality
Quality	Total pages
FA	17
FL	1
GA	69
B	369
C	1,129
Start	3,529
Stub	2,456
List	163
NA	1,572
Assessed	9,305
Unassessed	6
Total	9,311
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7004364080000000000♠36,408			Ω = 5.05

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.

Watchlist generator

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America