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I just happened to be writing an article on Nicola, a BC-side Okanagan chief whose inherited name Hwistesmetxe'qen was of Spokane origin, and discovered there was no language article to directly link to; there is no "Spokane language" article; the
on Salishan languages also redirects here. Emerging standards in the Indigenous peoples Wikiproject call for separate ethno/history, language and government/organization articles, and separate community/band articles as well. Just mentioning this and I do happen to know of a Spokane language grad student at U.Vic so given appropriate politicking (need someone as middle ground given our mutual background, y'see) I'll see if he can be recruited to do a standard Wiki-style linguistics article at some point; doesn't seem many Interior Salish languages have separate write-ups from tribal articles; there's at least some for the Coast.
Skookum1 22:34, 4 October 2006 (UTC)reply
See the Spokane(tribe/Volk)-article in the german Wikipedia
I wrote the major part of the Spokane(Volk)-article in the german Wikipedia. Maybe something in it is also useful in this english Wikiepedia, for example this map?:
In any case I in the english article added the Link to History and Culture, as it is presented in the Website of the Wellpinit School District, there are many further informations.
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Uyvsdi (
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"Spokane Tribe" seems like a more logically and commonly used term that "Spokan Tribe". -
Uyvsdi (
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Yes, but "Spokan Tribe" is correct (the Native Americans spelled it that way).
Samwb123T-
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They DID? I know James Teit and the Catholic Encyclopedia and HBC journalists used that spelling, but it's a complete surprise to me that pre-literate Native Americans had any spelling at all.....
Skookum1 (
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The tribe itself seems to believe its spelled "Spokane"[1][2][3] I would be inclined to take their word for it. -
Uyvsdi (
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NO, they spelled it "Spokan", or rather latter-day tribe members and ethnologists use it to distinguish it from the city, which was named after them (or rather after
Fort Spokane) (although the much out-of-date Catholic Encyclopedia uses the "Spokan" spelling, and it also uccurs in Teit - NB "they" originally didn't spell it any which way, they didn't use our alphabet nor had one of their own.... The main problem with your name change is that capital-T "Tribe" infers that the article would be about the government of the Spokan, i.e. the constituted tribal suthority, not the people themselves, which is/should be a separate article. "Spokan Tribe" is not a referenced name, and should be reverted to
Spokan (tribe) or
Spokane (tribe) - and NB in Canadian cases and in some WA-state and other cases, the formation
Spokan people or
Spokane people would/could be used....But capital-T "Tribe" is a no-go for an ethnography article, which is what this is supposed to be....
Skookum1 (
talk) 19:33, 21 December 2009 (UTC)reply
Googled it, and although their page is "under construction" its google title is
Spokane Tribe of Indians, which would be the name for the government article (and the Reservation redirect should go there, although ideally the Reservation should have its own article). I think, given User:Samwb123's evident lack of experience with {{
NorthAmNative}} article formats, that (as an experienced editor in that field) I'm just gonna change it to something more appropriate; the remaining
Spokane Tribe redirect should go to the
Spokane Tribe of Indians government article, once it's created.
Skookum1 (
talk) 19:40, 21 December 2009 (UTC)reply
Well, I was gonna change it to
Spokane people but that's already in place as a redirect and I'm not an admin; I don't think "Spokan people" is correct to use, given the Tribe's own usage and teh archaic nature of that spelling....
Skookum1 (
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Spokane people seems fine to me - maybe we can ask an administrator. The three links above are from the tribe (their website's currently down but the google cache for every single page is still visible; one's a tribal license plate produced by the tribe). Seeing links/refs that are more authoritative for "Spokan" would convince me. I'm finding the Catholic Encyclopedia and Access Genealogy, neither of which seem to be the highest authority on Indian affairs. Tribal members, such as
Char Teters and
Sherman Alexie also use "Spokane". Cheers, -
Uyvsdi (
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Requested move
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Spokane people — User made undiscussed, unilateral move to name suggesting that this is a page for the tribal government, when it is actually an article about the Spokane ethnic group. —
Uyvsdi (
talk) 19:57, 21 December 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdireply
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BrownHairedGirl(talk) • (
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Oppose until the issue is addressed properly. These should be discussed at a centralized location.
There was a discussion once on whether the ethnicity should have precedence for the name, and it was decided it shouldn't. That could be revisited. But it really should be one discussion on the principle, not thousands of separate discussions at every ethnicity in the world over whether it should be at "X", "Xs", or "X people". —
kwami (
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Support per nom. An identified people should be the primary topic of a term absent something remarkable standing in the way.
bd2412T 02:39, 22 March 2014 (UTC)reply
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