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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.

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.

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 American Indian, Native American, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, mestizo, and other Indigenous backgrounds 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.)

Redlinked entries in List of Native American politicians

Lists of missing articles

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

As of 14 March 2024, there are 13,950 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 0.3% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 36,706 pages in the project.

Our articles by category

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.

• 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.

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.^[a]

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.

1. ^ For additional guidelines on naming conventions and sourcing Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities, see Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities.

• WP:TRIBE is the shortcut to Wikipedia: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 [13]
• Chicago Tribune [14]
• Los Angeles Times [15]
• The Christian Science Monitor [16]
• Forbes [17]
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC): [18]
• The Guardian [19]

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

• 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.

Indigenous peoples of North America articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total FA 2 3 8 14 4 31 FL 1 1 A 1 1 GA 1 7 20 52 52 132 B 12 69 107 169 3 334 694 C 17 150 296 681 3 1,295 2,442 Start 10 118 583 1,739 1 3,602 6,053 Stub 13 129 1,566 1 1 2,411 4,121 List 2 5 16 56 154 233 Category 1 3,371 3,372 NA 5 9 33 974 1 1,022 Assessed 44 371 1,169 4,311 4,353 1 7,853 18,102 Unassessed 1 5 236 242 Total 44 371 1,170 4,316 4,353 1 8,089 18,344 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 67,106 Ω = 4.98

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