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Native American History Research Resources

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This page of links to resources and general information on Native American historical research is associated with the WikiTree Native Americans Project. Read the Comments and click through the Changes log to see its evolution.

For more Native American genealogy resources also see the Native Americans Project Reliable Sources page.

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Robert Teague
Might it be time to take another look at this page in the context of recent updates to our Reliable Sources page? (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Native_Americans_Project_Reliable_Sources)

I could see this page becoming more of a "companion" to Reliable Sources, with a broader focus on starting points and strategies for "learning how to learn" about conducting Native American historical research (at least to the extent that it could be addressed on WT). "Link rot" and links to unsecure sites also need attention. I'm happy to work on this while also honoring the legacy work done here, and just want to get any reaction before proceeding.

Cheers, Bob

posted by Robert Teague
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Did you read all of the comments below, Robert?

I think this page was historically a strange mish-mash. I'm not even sure how useful it is in its current form.

If you think it could be repurposed in a useful way, I'd say go for it. Just know that Kathie has developed some how-to research pages for doing Cherokee research, so let's not duplicate that. But perhaps there is a more over-arching "how to get started on NA research" ? But even that, I've got to think there are other places (even familysearch's wiki) that might have that already.

Kathie's out for the rest of the month, so I don't expect her to weigh in on this (but see what she's already written below.)

posted by Jillaine Smith
Robert Teague
Yep...and my thoughts align with yours and Kathie's.

The general idea would be to repurpose this page as a way to make resources like the excellent Cherokee research pages (and any other sources/resources pages actively maintained by project teams) easier to find - not duplicate effort, but promote it and make it more visible. So we'd have "Reliable Sources" for potential primary sources for use on profiles, and "History Resources" oriented more toward resources for general historical research. I'll take a pass at it to see if it's reasonable.

posted by Robert Teague
Parks-2399 Kathie (Parks) Forbes
The “profiles” list is odd to say the least, and includes at least one mythical person (Mourning Dove). There is no way a single page can cover Native American History, it seems like the project page should be enough.
posted by Kathie (Parks) Forbes
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
I'm going to move the Profiles section to the Project page
posted by Jillaine Smith
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
And Trail of Tears has its own page: http://www.wikitree.com/Space:Trail_of_Tears; should we move what's on this page to that one and link to it from here?
posted by Jillaine Smith
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
As I'm re-familiarizing myself with all the pages related to the Native Americans project, I'm still trying to get my head around the purpose of this page vs. the purpose of the project page. Until it gets to profiles, it seems like a type of historical overview of Native Americans in what is now the United States. But then I'm uncertain about the purpose of the "Profiles" section. Can someone walk me through it?
posted by Jillaine Smith
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Paula, too bad those decisions weren't documented anywhere so subsequent project leadership had something to follow or at least understand. The problem with both Moytoy and Doublehead is that the bulk of those "lines" is fictional. We've spent most of the last two years cleaning up those fictional profiles.
posted by Jillaine Smith
Parks-2399 Kathie (Parks) Forbes
I think we are trying to eliminate the mythical family names like “Moytoy” and get the LNAB changed to Cherokee.
posted by Kathie (Parks) Forbes
J-276 Paula J
We adopted the Tribe as last name when we noticed the duplicates that were made because of the policy at the time to name all indigenous peoples with last name Unknown. This was shortly after we put the project up. It started as a subproject to Westward Ho! named American Indians which only covered the western tribes. We got a lot of request for inclusion of Northeastern tribes. We consulted a Cherokee Nation member who strongly suggested we change the name so we did and made the sub a full project that covered all Native Americans. At that time we adopted Tribe as LNAB.

Later through member discussion, there were two famous lines they agreed should be given the last name they were popularly known by due to the continuation of multiple duplicates for these profiles. These were Moytoy and Doublehead. That part was changed after the project changed hands. It was a good idea and there were other famous lines that could have benefited from this idea due to the huge size of the Cherokee tribe and a few Plains Indian Tribes. Now, with the significant improvements with the matching system when adding a profile, that naming convention addition may no longer be needed. However, the name Moytoy is of great historical significance.

posted by Paula J
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
We now have a project page for Reliable NA Sources; I'm going to move the Sources section out of this page and onto that one.
posted by Jillaine Smith
Rankin-3121 Howard Rankin Jr
I am interested in this project because many of my Creek ancestors were forced to march in the Trail of Tears.
posted by Howard Rankin Jr
Roberta (Nelson) Farley
Think it's important not to forget the Iroquois Nation tribes who left New York in the 1700's The Onieda Tribe( one of the seven nations) settled in Wisconsin and Minnesota .My maternal grandfather was about 50% Native American.
posted by Roberta (Nelson) Farley
Strutton-11 Shirley Ann (Strutton) Dalton (1943-2023)
It's not a duplicate. This page has a good deal of information that was never included on the NA Project Page. It is a very useful, very attractive page. And will not be merged into the NA Project Page.

Naming Guidelines should be included on the NA Project Page.

Shirley

posted by Shirley Ann (Strutton) Dalton (1943-2023)

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