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I have a special interest in the Delaware Indians that Washington addressed in 1779.
My understanding: These Delaware Indians were already Christian pacifists, thus they were among the few NOT fighting against the colonists & for the British (who by Treaty of 1763 had prohibited colonists from settling in Indian Territories). The Indians were in trouble with other tribes & were (or would soon be)negotiating terms favorable to their resettlement (homes & church) further West. They ended up mistakenly massacred by Pennsylvania militia. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/h_indian/tribes/delaware.shtml -- JimWae 04:30, 2004 Nov 18 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on articles on American Indians. You have really improved them. Cheers, - Willmcw 21:05, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I've much appreciated the work you've been doing on Population history of American indigenous peoples. I haven't had the time to do the research for this and am extremely glad that someone who is conversant with the subject is giving the article a good grounding. Zora 03:22, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I appreciate the compliment, Kevin -- I liked the article also. I'm afraid I only did as thorough a job as was accomplished because I had delivered a lecture to my high school class on the Trail of Tears a few weeks ago, and still had most of the notes I'd prepared. Still, though I am unlikely to be as knowledgable in other areas, I'd love to have a list of unwritten articles that I can work on. If you feel like dropping me suggestions (or pointing me to a list of red links on a page somewhere) I'd be very happy. Thanks again for the kind words: keep up the good work, yourself! Jwrosenzweig 15:51, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Great job expanding Tecumseh's War. jengod 00:50, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks Kevin for your update! Very interesting. Any idea where the bounders that John Quincy Adams was complaining about get these (presumably American) slaves that they liberated? -- Daedelus 18:29, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Kevin: Great additions to the War of 1812 article! I've added a note on the talk page about condensing the article somewhat. That seems to me to be a good next step in the cleanup process. What do you think? Sunray 16:43, 2005 Mar 17 (UTC)
Hey Kevin, I've answered your questions at Talk:Northwest Indian War. Sorry for the four-month delay, but I'm afraid I haven't kept the Wabash Confederacy on my watch list. Bravo on your fine work; I couldn't agree more, American Indian history is dreadfully neglected. Don't hesitate to leave messages for me on my talk page. QuartierLatin1968 16:13, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the Native Population link on the Smallpox/ Amherst article -- but people still keep putting the dispute box up. Maybe the topic is in everyone's intro history class or something. Perhaps we should think about a separate article on it after all. Title: Amherst and Biological Warfare? Amherst and Smallpox Infection? Also, I've been working on articles on the Prehistoric Southwest and added some prehistoric info (identical originally) to Navajo and Apache. As an Indiophile -- perhaps you could look them over. Comments welcome. WBardwin 01:44, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Pontiac's Rebellion looks very good! I put the reference I found -- with those quotes -- on the talk page. The suspect Parkman book is probably the source. It would be wonderful to find some microfilm of the primary documents themselves. Will watch that page and help if I can. WBardwin 10:32, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)\
Hi Kevin. You sure seem devoted to Native American history! I think that's very cool. Have you ever thought of starting a WikiProject on it? It might be a good idea, if you could find more people who share the interest. -- ROY YOЯ 6 July 2005 17:29 (UTC)
Hi, I had some comments on the fur trade article we've both edited. As " American Indian" redirects to " Native American", and because both of those terms can imply a United States of America-centric focus, wouldn't it be best to choose a different term that clearly encompasses all of the indigenous peoples of North America involved in the fur trade? Additionally, is the term " European-Americans" the best term to use, if that article only addresses people of European descent in the United States? Lastly, I think a more effective term than "native" can be used in the article. The Government of Canada's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs has published naming guidelines [3] in which they describe the term "native" as being "increasingly seen as outdated (particularly when used as a noun) and is starting to lose currency." [4]. I recognize that Canadian guidelines may not be ideally suited for an article about the indigenous peoples of a whole continent, but it does have relevance. Kurieeto 02:49, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
As a member of the Comanche tribal roll, I can tell you without a doubt that the term "Native American" is offensive to us. It is yet another way that white men try to erase our history. I know that some do this from ignorance, but some do it out of pure racism! I like to be called a "Native American" as much as a black person likes to be called a Negro, or if you wanted to call them ex-slave Americans. It's wrong!
Please see the following: a 1996 survey revealed that more American Indians in the United States still preferred American Indian to Native American. .
and the following:
Some American Indians have misgivings about the term Native American. Russell Means, a famous American Indian activist, opposes the term Native American because he believes it was imposed by the government without the consent of American Indians. [17] Furthermore, some American Indians question the term Native American because, they argue, it serves to ease the conscience of "white America" with regard to past injustices done to American Indians by effectively eliminating "Indians" from the present. [18] Still others (both Indians and non-Indians) argue that Native American is problematic because "native of" literally means "born in," so any person born in America is "native" to it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GOP904 ( talk • contribs)
Hello Kevin, I’m an historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University ( http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including the writing of history on Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.
Thanks for your consideration.
Joan Fragaszy
Hi, Kevin. Issue has been taken with the statement "At least 5,000 black soldiers fought as Patroits; about 1,000 fought with the British as Loyalists" in the American Revolution article, and it looks like you were the source (Nov. 19 2004). Gary Nash, in the Unknown American Revolution has "tens of thousands" of slaves escaping to British lines in response to Dunmore's proclamation, but fails to provide a figure for the number who were put under arms. I've seen your work on numbers in the War of 1812 article-- any chance you want to revise the 5000/1000 figures?
TIA, Mwanner | Talk 20:45, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Kevin, thanks for the info on Image:Alexander McGillivray 1790.jpg. I'm assuming your source has it right, so I have removed the image. It certainly came from a shaky source [5], though the caption ("Sketch made by John Trumbull (1756-1843) in 1790"), made it seem that they knew something about the image. Looking around just now I came across a version of the image [6] that contains what appears to be the original caption, which reads "Hopothle Mico - or the Talasee[?] King of the Creeks -- J. T. - New York 1790" (this is in context at [7]). What was McGillivray's (supposed) indian name? -- Mwanner | Talk 21:00, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
So far, so good. Praise, and some good suggestions on minor issues Wikipedia:Peer review/Pontiac's Rebellion/archive1. I will dig out my textbooks and help over the weekend if I can. But I suspect you can answer their questions off the top of your head. Featured article, here we come! You did a great job. WBardwin 23:12, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Well rats, have you already read the Oliphant book? I picked up a copy at Fort Loudoun this weekend but I haven't finished it yet. Gazpacho 06:02, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
I hereby bestow upon Kevin Myers this Work of Art Award, for his miraculous work on the jumbled POV lightning rod History of United States imperialism. Mr. Myers took the initiative and made History of United States imperialism into a magnificent work of encyclopedic art, Template:AmericanEmpire. Congratulations and thank you. Travb 23:05, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I haven't thanked you for recently inscribing my deathless apercu concerning popular history on a marble slab and setting it at the head of Talk:Presentism (literary and historical analysis). I was hugely amused and genuinely flattered. Obviously you have a well-tuned ear. -- Wetman 15:54, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
In your edits to "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own" (history book) you say "Unlike traditional histories of the American West, White's book is a history of a region, rather than the story of the expanding frontier". Do you have any traditional histories in mind? White's book is not so very different from many others, including Hawgood's 1967 book America's Western Frontiers (book). BookCover 16:01, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
I agree. White may well be a 1990s New Western History advocate, but his distinction is not in writing a regional history of the West. There have been many before him. Hawgood's award winning history was published in 1967. West's (West, Howard Robert (ed.). This is the West. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1957), a winner of the Western Writers of America's Spur Award in non-fiction, was published in 1957. Nor is White's distinction in rejecting Turner's frontier thesis as the definition of the West. The theory, over the last hundred years or so, has been rejected, revived, mocked, praised, and discarded too many times to count. BookCover 05:59, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Dear Kevin, I've ended up in your Talk page after doing some research on the way our information on
Indigenous peoples of North America and
Native Americans in the United States is currently categorized, as well as your creation some time ago of the NorthAm-native-stub Template. Since I'm currently working on a draft for a Native Americans in the US Wikiproject, I am also designing both a stub template specifically directed to these groups, and I couldn't help but to observe that yours adds them to
Category:Indigenous peoples of North America stubs, as said template is directed both to
Native Americans in the United States and
First Nations. I must tell you, I also intended to create a Subcategory dedicated solely for US Native American-related stubs, so my question is: would you object if we create separate stub templates and Subcats for both this topic and First Nations? Most important, would you be willing to help me a little bit in the recategorizing task, should you agree? And even more important, considering your expertise in the matter, I'd be extremely happy and honored if you actually decided to take part in the project.
These ideas are in fact central to the development of my project, so I'm concerned about your reply; but I didn't want to go and simply toss aside your previous work without your input and ideas. You'd be doing me a big favor, if you agree. I eagerly wait your reply. Cheers,
Phædriel ♥
tell me - 15:58, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I have to admit I did quite a bit of stalking to confirm that you are not the Kevin Myers I am familiar with. He is quite an opinionated (and divisive) journalist in Ireland who writes regularly for The Irish Times. I still thought it may have been that he had become massively interested in American history, but something about the writing doesn't convince me. Or am I wrong? Oh, and just "for the record", I think archives are essential to every talk page - otherwise (barring diffs, which can be difficult to find two months on), it can be a frustrating task to keep track of the vast network of interactions you build up - you never know when you'll need to find them again... Cormaggio @ 10:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Kevin, this is a perfect case for a name change. In my wildest dreams I couldn't have imagined such a scenario. You poor lad. El Gringo 04:04, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I notice that (before I made any changes) many entries in the Continental Army categories are for State militia. I suppose that the purpose of the Continental Army categories could be changed to include Militia. Or create parallel categories for militia matching the Continental categories. Thanks. Hmains 18:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Category talk:American militiamen in the American Revolution. Your comments please. Thanks. Hmains 16:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for starting this template. I'm glad it exists, but I have a few issues with starting the campaign with the Powder Alarm. Would you mind talking about this on its talk page? Flying Jazz 04:58, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
I actually changed the name because my assumption was that the template would be placed on each of the theater articles, in order to allow sideways navigation between them (similar to sideways navigation between battles with the other campaignboxes), in which case it might not be clear what "Campaigns and theaters" refers to. I'll leave it up to you how you want to deal with that, though. — Kirill Lok s hin 15:40, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
I've created Opposition to the War of 1812. You seem to know more about the subject than I - most of my references I got from your post to the Wikiproject:Anti-war talk page. Would you mind looking it over, rating it, suggesting or making changes, when you have time? Kalkin 19:27, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
So you are calling the National Park Service non-scholarly? How to explain the [ http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Circa1804/Heritage/NativeAmericans/NativeAmericanInfluence.htm link] I provided? To quote: "In retaliation for the murder of Pontiac, the midwest tribes descended upon the Illiniwek in force. After a number of battles, many of the surviving Illini moved west of the Mississippi. The Kaskaskia, however, under the leadership of chief Jean-Baptiste Ducoign, returned to their village site on the river that now bears their name." Rmhermen 00:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I checked sources and have unmerged the articles. I'll review the succession boxes as well. Gazpacho 07:05, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
At one point you were sure that the date 1960s is correct. It's been changed back to 1690s again; did you miss that or did you discover an error in your source? -- Espoo 11:46, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I am Chris ( User:Cculber007) and I am original creator of New Echota, Georgia Land Lottery and others. I wonder if this article has mentioned about land lottery which I don't see while I tried to link. I think land lottery should be applied in this article as result of what happening to Cherokees' properties after they left. I live 2 miles away from New Echota and I live in Calhoun, Georgia but I am 1/3 Creek Indian. Let me know if I need to add or what? I am still working on Creek information for land lottery also. Tnanks User:Cculber007 10:26, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Looks like I've stumbled onto an editor whose area of interest falls within the timeframe of this article! I currently have a peer review going on this article and would love the feedback of someone who's knowledgeable about this time period... And even though I gave the impression of a thin skin earlier, I actually do take constructive criticism well... Thanks! plange 04:38, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your grammatical tweak/improvement of the article Third Servile War :) If you have any comments/opinions about the article that might be relevant to its current peer review, or A-class review, I would very much appreciate if you would add them. Thank you :) - Vedexent 09:15, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
I've made a proposal to slightly restructure this category to eliminate some of the stranger US/non-US/pre-US confusion that seems to be occuring with it, and was hoping that you might be able to offer some comments, as you're no doubt far more familiar with the actual conflicts than I am. Thanks! Kirill Lokshin 00:22, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Kevin:
I just wanted to tell you that I will be uploading a cropped version of Pt. Pleasant monument photo you uploaded under GFDL. The cropped version will be used as a clickable button on some upcoming revisions to List of West Virginia state parks. You can see the draft version at User:WVhybrid/My_own_sandbox for the next few days. I will make sure are cited for the orginial version. Thanks for posting the photo. WVhybrid 01:44, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I did not realize that there was a need for this article. I remember doing some historical research and coming across a person who had two unusual encounters. One of them is still obscure and is hidden only in clues and oblique references. The other was a court record in which this person described being "capitvated" at "Lockrees Defeat". So, I looked into it and found it to be an interesting piece of history.
How did you know I wrote it? I just did it last night. -- Blue Tie 13:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the help on Charles de Langlade. We're compiling a list of articles related to the Anishinaabe (Ojibwa, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Oji-Cree, Nipissing, Mississauga, Algonquin) at User:Leo1410/Anishinaabe. I know you have a lot of Great Lakes history red links and military history knowledge. It'd be great if you could help us out. ( Leo1410 22:01, 28 September 2006 (UTC))
Magnificent! Out of curiosity: were you writing the text offline prior to posting it, or did you actually put it together so quickly?
It's somewhat amusing, incidentally, to note how many of the entries to Danny's contest are military history topics, and the degree to which those articles have been expanded. ;-) Kirill Lokshin 16:04, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Damn. That's all, just, day-yaaam. Incredible job. Any hope I had of winning the contest has now been put to rest. You could say that hope was stripped, scalded, scalped, and burned at the stake. Great article. ; ) – Quadell ( talk) ( random) 00:51, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for participating in the contest. You did an amazing job with the Crawford expedition, and I am pleased to announce that you are the winner. Please contact me privately with your contact information so that I can make sure you receive your $100 Amazon gift certificate. Danny 00:34, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations! It's truly an outstanding article. (Incidentally, are you planning to take it to FAC at some point?) Kirill Lokshin 00:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Congrats on your solid win in Danny's contest! You earned it. – Quadell ( talk) ( random) 02:15, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Indeed. I just read through the article for the first time, and it is impressive. Congratulations, and keep up the great work. -- Robth Talk 08:08, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Kevin, I'm willing to contest your deletion should you do it again. The relation is speculative to you, yet Nathan states to Draper that his father frequently highlighted the relation. Daniel Boone himself spoke of Daniel Morgan as a relative. Given the importance of Daniel Morgan in American history, I see no reasonable explanation as to why it does not belong in the article. Every single fact known to us can be made "trivia", Kevin, such is the nature of information.{ Mind meal 11:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)}
Why the rv of my Daniel Boone edits on 10-28. Do you really think Portrait is spelled Portait? I cited my source for the Morgan House,it is not trivia it is History. Please explain. Tstrobaugh 16:36, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi -- I am the person who recently made a major revision of the Crispus Attucks article which, I was grateful to notice, you made a positive comment about. I was hoping you will add the article to your watch list and help me keep in eye on it. There are three different users who are vandalizing the page with increasing frequency. Thanks. House of Scandal 01:52, 14 November 2006 (UTC) -- (John, Boston, Massachusetts)
I have taken a break from wikipedia. Just too much going on in my life right now and I am way behind on "real life" stuff. But I noticed your Lochry's Defeat Article and I wanted to say "Well Done!". -- Blue Tie 00:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)