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Talk:Phil Fontaine

message: * Does he have an Anishinaabe name?
* Photo would be nice
* In-line citation
* reference, reference, reference
* more about him as the Regional Director General for the Canadian government
* more about his tenure with ICC
* more about his first two terms as the Grand Chief
CJLippert 06:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  To do to improve 

message: There is a problem: Every single citation except for citations 2 (CTV News story), 6 (RBC Newsroom story), and 7 (Government of Canada Order of Canada) link to broken, non-existent, or informationless pages, in addition, citation 2 does not actually link to the article. I will tag this, and someone with a more time and experience should work on this article's sources. JamesJNHu (talk) 00:37, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Errors 
Talk:Sagkeeng First Nation

message: As Fort Alexander is almost entirely a part of the Sagkeeng First Nation's reserve territory (save two parcels of land), it makes sense to talk about them as one. FUNgus guy (talk) 05:06, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 09:34, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merger with Fort Alexander, Manitoba

message: No mention of Ron Fontaine in the  article. An oversight? Peter Horn User talk 01:39, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ron Fontaine
Talk:Siglitun

message: Inuktitut's page notes that /k/ is always /x/ in Siglitun, but that's not noted here. I'm not an expert on either language, so I'm hoping someone who is would be able to clear up this inconsistency and explain which is true.
AnyGuy (talk) 00:38, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistency with the Inuktitut page
Talk:Inuttitut

message: From http://staff.washington.edu/nfabbi/Inuktut%20Uqausiit.pdf : The Nunatsiavummiut (the Inuit from the Labrador regions of Nunatsiavut) were an exception.
The distinctive names for the Inuit Uqausiit of Canada’s Arctic are:
*Inuvialuit region – Inuvialuktun and Iniunnaqtun (two major dialects)
*Nunavut region – Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun (two major dialects)
*Nunavik region – Inuttitut or Inuktitut (Ungava Bay and Hudson Bay, respectively)
*Nunatsiavut – Inuttitut or Inuttut (one language, two interchangeable spellings).
--Kmoksy (talk) 10:33, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inuktut Uqausiit (Inuit Languages) in Canada
Talk:Dennistoun

message: "Fine culinary delights such as plentiful Kebab shops (most notably 'Gills all In One'), Chippies and salted nuts in 'The Lea Rig' abound in the district."
This removed as not particularly relevant or distinctive (name me an area of inner Glasgow without plentiful kebab shops and chippies) and subject to frequent change.  The famous Tapa and Coia's cafes, both on the junction of Whitehill Street and Duke Street, would more merit inclusion.
"The area is also home to the world-reknowned Rangers F.C. supporters bar 'The Louden Tavern'."
Is the Louden Tavern really "world-reknowned"?  I'm a life-long Rangers supporter, but before moving to Dennistoun I'd never heard of it, and other than on this site, the only place I've heard it described as such is painted across the front of the pub itself.
--Finton Stack — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.18.63.25 (talk • contribs) 02:52, February 12, 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks for that, Finton. I got fed up reverting these changes, added by User:Kolyma-Covenant, I suspect just as a wind-up. I tried to argue that the Louden wasn't even famous in Glasgow, never mind the world, but I just got shot down as I'm a Celtic supporter, so it's good to see a Rangers' supporter back me up. As for the kebab-shops etc., that's just plain silly, for the reasons you give above, so I hope you'll help in keeping such ephemera out. Camillus (talk) 11:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kebab shops, chippies, and Louden Tavern
Talk:Vail Resorts

message: Is there any reason why Vail somehow managed to acquire Keystone and Breckenridge a year before it even existed? Malcolmmwa (talk) 20:19, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Vail Associates is the previous entity which acquired the two, prior to becoming Vail Resorts.--☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 22:35, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vail didn't exist in 1996 

message: I have heard that vail resort had invested in les arcs 1950 but I cant find any info on it and I am wondering if it should get added to this page 82.28.89.180 (talk) 19:39, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: If there is  a reliable source for that information it may be put in the article.--☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(ring-ring) 13:45, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vail investment in arc 1950
Talk:James Henry Carleton

message: This page should have more about his violent  methods of contolling Navajos. Shoot to kill order?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.95.34.92 (talk) 21:18, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That material is from this source which is sub-standard for Wikipedia purposes]. Note that even in that, the order related to Apaches, not to Navajo. Such orders were given during the Indian Wars, by other officers, in other theaters, but certainly not with respect to the Navajo during the campaign Carleton commanded. Thousands of Navajo men were delivered alive to Bosque Redondo. User:Fred Bauder Talk 15:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There's a lot wrong with this. Mangas was NOT a Mescalero, he was a Warm Springs Apache. The whole thing about Mangas being killed at Ft. McLane has absolutely nothing to do with this article. The "kill letter" Carleton issued to Carson was NOT followed, either. This is a very bad article. 2601:8C1:8581:58E0:715E:D42B:41ED:9D9B (talk) 16:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: yes it does relate to article!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.131.153.221 (talk) 03:49, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mescalero Campaign.
Talk:Manuelito

message: I removed Barboncito from the reference to Navajo Scout recruitment. I believe that Barboncito, a famous Navajo Chief, was not living when first scouts were recruited in 1872.  No doubt he would have approved.  Due to both Anglo and Navajo naming conventions, there are probably many "Barboncito"s that might be leaders in the 1870-1895 timeframe.--Rcollman 13:25, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Barboncito
Talk:List of schools of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board

message: I'd like to suggest a move from List of English public schools in Ottawa to Schools of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and, similar moves to school board lists for List of French public schools in Ottawa, List of English catholic schools in Ottawa, and List of French catholic schools in Ottawa. My rationale is that the title is a little misleading as there are French-immersion schools in the English public school board and the current consensus is that schools not demonstrably notable enough for their own article are merged to a board article until there is sufficient reliably-sourced information to justify an independent article. An article listing these schools would be better able to handle such mergers. DoubleBlue (Talk) 04:14, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Move suggestion
Talk:Certification of voting machines

message: Why is one of the sections titled "Work of Roy Saltman"? Very odd to reference this man's name and then two paragraphs with no mention of him at all. Retitle the section to focus on the task force and report that *are* discussed in it?
:Roy Saltman is the father of federal research in the area of voting systems. He worked for NIST and now is an independent researcher, still a leading academic in this field. Maybe you didn't notice, but the section discusses two publications Effective Use of Computing Technology in Vote-Tallying and Voting System Standards: A Report on the Feasibility of Developing Voluntary Standards for Voting Equipment Roy Saltman (as noted in the references) authored both of those surveys. - Electiontechnology 08:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Useless section title
Talk:Nisga'a language

message: Perhaps there are no fluent speakers under the age of 15, but I doubt there are no speakers at all under 15. I have visited the valley and interracted with the locals, and-- albeit during a ceremonial occassion-- I did observe young people speaking in Nisga'a.--Keefer4 11:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Information of that kind tends to come from www.ethnologue.com and other linguistics sources; not always up to date, and often out of whack with reality even when it was "in date".Skookum1 18:53, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The FirstVoices page has <l̓ m̓> in its Nisga'a text, which makes me think it might have glottalized sonorants. The liturgy, on the other hand, doesn't, but it does have sonorant + <'> clusters, which might represent the same thing. (It also has <hl>, which I'm guessing is /ɬ/, so there's probably some orthographic variation that should be mentioned if I'm not hallucinating it.)
Also, the primer gives the name of the language as /niʃɣa/, but the YDLI page says it's /nisqaʔa/. Which is it, or is there dialectal variation? (For that matter, is there even /q/? I don't see any <ģ>s in the liturgy or FirstVoices page, so is <g̱> just another way of writing /ɣ/?) --Nortaneous (talk) 23:17, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  phoneme inventory questions 

message: Visiting the Nass Valley, I learned that Nisga'a children are taught only in their native language until age 5, at which point children go to public schools and learn English. There must be more than 700 speakers as the communities are working to retain their traditions. All major community gatherings use the language, and people listen intently, meaning I imagine they all understand the language.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Logfern (talk • contribs) 20:25, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speakers 
Talk:Tsimshianic languages

message: * "Theory" and "hypothesis" are not the same, and Penutian is not a theory (it's far too small for that).
* Science does not and cannot prove, only disprove, so to ask for proof is… you know what I mean. :-)
* I merged the last two paragraphs because the last simply repeated information from the 2nd-to-last.
* I have left the links to "Tsimshian" and "Coast Tsimshian". However, they both lead to "Tsimshian", which is an article on the people, not on the language(s). That should be changed.
* Also… should Dunn's paper really be mentioned? The consonant mergers he assumes are a bit too convenient to be convincing, the semantic leeway he allows for supposed cognates is very large, he doesn't seem to have understood the PIE laryngeals, vocabulary is more, not less, easily borrowed than morphology, there are thoroughly weird sound correspondences (Dunn calls them "intriguing") between /q/ and /s/ and between /r/ and /l/ and /s/, and so on. David Marjanović 19:39, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: My edit
Talk:Gitxsan language

message: — Assignment last updated by TyJbaskin (talk) 21:24, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ANTH473 INLG480 Living Languages
Talk:Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America

message: As I'm studying the "What links here" list of this article and from the more central Long house article I come to the conclusion that although the Iroquois longhouse may be by far the most well known and to some the only one of interest there have been a lot more tribes that know this building type. So far the Lenni Lenape/Delaware seem the oldest group in the east coast region. Are there any excavations of old longhouses? Did the east coast longhouse originate with them and others like the Iroquois to the north, that seem to have migrated here a lot later than the Lenape, the Erie and Wyandot to the west and the Powhattan, that may be related to the Lenape, to the south learned from them? Is there any Information on how old this building tradition is? The oldest longhouses in Europe seem to origin around 5000 BC. Longhouses excavated in Daepyeong in Korea may be from 1000 BC. What about America? Was the idea maybe brought to America during the Na-Dene migration? --T.woelk 12:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Scope and history

message: I notice that there is no mention of Quebec in the description of the lands inhabited by the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee. Hochelaga was a settlement containing a great number of longhouses, and remains of longhouses have been found on the Boucherville Islands south of Montreal. I will therefore add Quebec to New York and Ontario as a region in which longhouses were built. Mattyleg (talk) 21:52, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quebec inclusion 

message: The main titles in the article use the term 'indigenous peoples' which is great, but the wording has not been reflected back further into the article, specifically 'Coastal Indians in the Pacific Northwest'. Is there any reason why Coastal Indians can't/ shouldn't be changed to 'Indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest' for example? Ottawaorrell (talk) 16:40, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording of "Coastal Indians in the Pacific Northwest"
Talk:Proto-Algonquian language

message: Last fall, somebody added a map of Siebert's 1967 proposal that the urheimat of Proto-Algonquian was deep in eastern North America, around present day Toronto. There is a proposal that's a generation newer, but i guess nobody produced a map of it for Wikipedia, so the editor grabbed the mapping of Siebert. "Grab any illustration you can" is a popular criterion at Wikipedia, but it's not an academically sound criterion. 
Besides, Siebert's proposal defies historical common sense, it defies a general principle of language diffusion, and most compellingly, it defies the fact that Algonquian is but a branch of Algic, whose other members are in northern California. We know the Americas were colonized from Asia. Now while there certainly must have been migrations north and west in the last 15,000 years as well as south and east, all the way from Lake Ontario to the Rockies (Blackfoot)? Come on! Besides that, it's an established language history observation that when you have a single language (like Russian or Mandarin), or group of relatively nondivergent languages (like Turkic) spoken over half a continent, then the colonization was (relatively) both quick and recent. As languages of the Americas go, Algonquian languages are relatively not very divergent from each other. Moreover, the greatest amount of divergence is to be found among the Plains languages, both mutually and between them and the rest. Clearly, Siebert's proposal is naive. We extend this reasoning up to the entire language family to which Algonquian belongs. There's huge divergence among Algonquian and the two Californian languages Wiyot and Yurok, more than within Algonquian. You don't give a hugely contrarian proposal top prominence (like the most conspicuous graphic) without lots of explanation. You learn all this If you read just a few pages here and there on historical linguistics. Dale Chock (talk) 13:19, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, misdid the italicizing for the above. Dale Chock (talk) 13:20, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urheimat of Proto-Algonquian 

message: In the section on clusters, Pentland argues that Ojibwa oshtigwaan 'his head' is a borrowing from Cree and so presumably does not contain the unique Proto-Algonquian cluster *št.  However, Blackfoot o'tokaani 'his head' is also a reflex of this word and it doesn't look like a borrowing from Cree or Ojibwa.  Should this additional cognate be added to the article?    66.212.65.6 (talk) 01:42, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Howard! Yeah, Pentland's article is from a while back so it's useful to have more recent sources/data. Goddard also mentions Munsee has (or had?) wì·ləští·kan. I've added a note to the article citing that and your paper from 2006. Maybe it would be better to remove that discussion altogether? Although I do think the fact there's only one correspondence set for the cluster is notable enough that it should be included... --Miskwito (talk) 18:46, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  A reflex of PA 'his head' in Blackfoot
Talk:Eastern Algonquian languages

message: The 'Notes' following the list of languages contain a variety of unsourced material on Loup and Etchemin. Most of the comments appear to originate in Ives Goddard, 1978, "Eastern Algonquian Languages," Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15. I will provide references, and reorganize some of the text.
But there are some statements that appear to be speculative, or at least I have not been able to find a reference, such as:
Certain intriguing similarities between the Etchimin list and Wampanoag might suggest that languages closely related to Wampanoag might have been spoken as far north as the coast of Maine in the precontact period.
If there is a reference out there, it would be good to have. I wasn't able to find support for this statement in the standard references, so it should probably be deleted.
John Jomeara421 (talk) 05:02, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material on "Etchemin" and "Loup" 

message: 1. References added throughout.
2. Opening paragraphs revised and expanded.
3. Separate section called "Background" created for material citing Rudes. The material here does not seem very relevant but removing it might be excessive.
4. A section on "Eastern Algonquian as a Genetic Subgroup" has been added.
Notes on “Family Division” Section
This section is renamed “Classification,” which seems more meaningful.
Similarly “Notes” has been changed to “Notes on Classification,” and the material reorganized.
There are some unsupported classifications in the list of Eastern Algonquian languages as it exists, and these have been corrected:
:a. "Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett” seems to be an error (apparently found in Ethnologue). The Wikipedia entry for this language needs to be corrected as well.
: b. Related to a, Narragansett is usually considered a separate language (Goddard 1978, Eastern Algonquian languages, Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15) closely related to Massachusett, or part of a Massachusett-Narragansett dialect complex (Goddard, Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 17, 1996, “Introduction”). The former is used here (see also Costa, cited in (d) below).
:c. Mohegan-Montauk-Pequot is treated as a unit, consistent with Costa, 2007, Papers of the Algonquian Conference, “The Dialectology of Southern New England Algonquian”
:d. Piscataway is usually treated as part of Nanticoke (Goddard 1978)
John Jomeara421 (talk) 04:15, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisions 

message: If, as has been surmised, neolithic European tribes skirted the edge of Ice age ice and got to the NE coast of America, are there any links between, say, Ugric or Basque and the NE native American languages?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.47.206 (talk) 10:59, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eastern US native languages and European neolithic languages.
Talk:Elsipogtog First Nation

message: National coverage of the blockade and police intervention. Will likely need to be added shortly. 108.172.115.8 (talk) 20:11, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protest 

message: I decided to add more detail regarding the win of Kraft Hockeyville 2021 and the community events. Jonah Simon (talk) 11:21, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kraft Hockeyville
Talk:Michael Chong

message: The CBC 2004 summary indicates that Chong received his BA.  Do you have evidence to contradict this?  CJCurrie 03:14, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bachelor of Arts

message: Do we really need all the variations of Chinese in the lead?  Michael was born in Canada.  I get that he has Chinese roots, but his name in traditional Chinese appears in the info box on the right.  It seems to only clutter (and distract from) the information in the lead, as such I am going to boldly remove it.  If others disagree, I invite comments here.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 19:10, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a Chinese language article on him as well: .  Perhaps we could create a link on the Chinese characters so those interested could connect to the Chinese language site.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 20:17, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinese In the Lead

message: Undid naming of position within the Conservatives back from "Shadow Cabinet", a term Conservatives have used but has little history in Canadian Politics and is not official. 
This seems to be a tactic to make their members sound like they are Ministers. In fact, this is a term borrowed from UK politics and is practically meaningless in Canadian Politics, outside of making Conservative members sound better. 
As such, I removed it. 
Please comment before re-adding. 
Note: The IP that added this also made largely favourable updates for solely Canadian Conservative content, leading me to suspect they are either high-level members of the party or directly work for them, thus rendering them unsuitable as updating to Wikipedia. I would ask people who wish to change this to engage the talk page first. -Kirkoconnell (talk) 16:35, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undid naming of position within the Conservatives back from "Shadow Cabinet", a term Conservatives have used but has little history in Canadian Politics and is not official.  

message: Information to add to this article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/04/canada-china-ambassador-summoned-cong-peiwu 173.88.246.138 (talk) 03:07, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  2023 harassment of Chong
Talk:Métis National Council

message: The Métis National Council is NOT represented in s. 35 of the Constitution Act 1982.  The Métis National Council represents some members of the Western Métis (BC, Alberta, Sask, Manitoba, Ontario) in their negotiations with state and corporate actors and coordinates efforts between provincial organizations at the national level.  S. 35 is an affirmation of existing Aboriginal and treaty rights of the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples.  While the MNC can, and does, utilize this constitutional protection in their defence of contemporary Métis peoples and communities in the Canadian courts, it is in no way recognized in the Constitution Act.  It is best understood as roughly analogous to the Assembly of First Nations.  While the state may find it expedient to deal solely with a single organization, this cannot and should not be mistaken for official recognition OR constitutional recognition.  24.78.205.88 (talk) 20:04, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed