Talk:Spokane people

message: 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)
thread_title:  Spokane language needs separate page 

message: 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?:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Lebensraum_der_Spokane_Indianer.png
There are only some rights reserved, mainly it is to name the author of the map in the form he called it there, so no problem to use it here, if the creator of the map is mentioned.
Maybe better is the map in http://www.spokanetribe.com/page.php?code=reservation, but I don't know the rights.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane_(Volk)
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. 
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Schratmaki at 12. February 2009  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.218.18.169 (talk) 13:41, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  See the Spokane(tribe/Volk)-article in the german Wikipedia 

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was  Uyvsdi (talk) 07:55, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but "Spokan Tribe" is correct (the Native Americans spelled it that way). Samwb123T-C-@ 19:17, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 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 (talk) 19:44, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

text: The tribe itself seems to believe its spelled "Spokane" I would be inclined to take their word for it. -Uyvsdi (talk) 19:29, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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  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)
replies: text: 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 (talk) 19:43, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
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