Native Americans Project Teams

Profile managers: Jillaine Smith [send private message] and Native Americans Project WikiTree [send private message]

WikiTree Native Americans Project members organize into teams based on their more specific interests. Everyone who wants to join the project is asked to find a team they'd like to join, and express their interests when requesting to join the project. Note that you are not required to be a project (or team) member in order to help create or improve Native American profiles.

To check out what project members are currently working on, see Native Americans Project Member Contributions.

Don't see what you're interested in on the following list?
Take a look at the index all pages of teams and other sub-projects on the Native Americans Project Teams Category Page. This collection has a number of inactive teams, and we seek volunteers to activate or reinvigorate them. Please leave a Comment if you're interested!

Topical Teams

Notable Lines

• Descendants of Pocahontas Team

Tribes & Nations

General Teams Coordinator: Robert Teague

Native Americans Project teams focused on specific tribes and nations are typically developed based on where there seems to be common interest. Active teams maintain team pages describing the team's scope and goals, and research resources to help team members with creating and improving individual profiles. These teams are currently active:

• Apache Team
• Blackfeet Team
• Choctaw Team
• Cherokee Team
• Crow Team
• Lenni-Lenape (Delaware) Team
• Navajo Team
• Pueblo Team
• Siouan Peoples Team (Dakota, Lakota, Nakota)
• Shawnee Team
• Wyandot & Wyandotte Team

Functional Teams

Categorization

This team, in collaboration with the Categorization project, reviews and updates category usage pertaining to profiles of Native Americans.

Myths & Legends

Coordinator: Kathie Forbes

There are quite a few fictional, fraudulent, or mythical people who have been included as Native American or married to a Native American. If you would like to work with this team on identifying and correcting those profiles, let Coordinator Kathie Forbes know that you would be willing to help.

Profile Management and Improvement

Coordinator: Jillaine Smith

The goal of the Native Americans Project is to raise profiles of Native Americans to the highest standard possible and make them the best that they can be. This Team is on the front line of the coordinated effort to achieve this. Whether it be by working through the Project Maintenance Category, sourcing, profiling, connecting or data-doctoring, profilers are continuously making contributions to improve Native American profiles.

In addition, the Native American Project manages a number of profiles where extra focus is given, including Project Protected Profiles (aka PPPs). These are profiles of historically-significant people and widely-shared ancestors that are at least 200 years old or notable, and where there is some sort of controversy or duplication problem, or reasonable expectation that there will be.

If you would like to work on this team, let Coordinator Jillaine Smith know you are interested and would be willing to help.

Resources & Integration

Do you enjoy researching, locating and organizing resources related to Native Americans? Live in or near an area where Native Americans live or lived? Have the time to do some research for other WikiTreers? This might be a good place for you to contribute to the Native Americans project. This Team works to identify viable project resources relating to Native Americans in general, or a specific Tribe/Nation, and add them to our pages of Native Americans Project Reliable Sources or Native American History Research Resources.

You also might be able to answer project-related questions posted to G2G with the Native_American or Native_Americans tag, or offer other research assistance as needed. If you don't know an answer, you may be able to point to a person or project who might know the answer.