Talk:Calusa

message: Excuse me but there is a subdivision in Florida called 'Calusa Trace.' You can google it if you don't believe me. Just because you wrote this article doesn't mean you can have a monopoly on it, asshole.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.91.195.117 (talk) 15:07, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And that has nothing to do with this article. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. -- Donald Albury 19:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia is also not an encyclopedia. That's why people like you can write about a topic like this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.91.195.117 (talk) 03:35, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia -- Donald Albury 11:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Calusa Trace

message: I am very interested in the Calusa Tribe.  I am making a request that if anyone owns The Evolution of Calusa that they would please contribute any more information they could append to this article.  It's saddening to see such an unique tribe to have so little written about them.  I would also like to thank Donald Alubry for his support. Cneetz (talk) 20:15, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not the only editor to contribute here. If you have access to reliable sources, you can add to the article. All the material I've added has been based on books I checked out from public libraries. I hope to come back to this article again but it's hard to find the time. -- Donald Albury 22:39, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The Evolution of Calusa

message: I think it would be beneficial to the reader if you were to mention that the Calusa beliefs were documented primarily by Spanish missionaries. They undoubtedly had a limited perspective on the cultural significance of what they witnessed and documented. For instance, this account of the soul migrating to lesser animals may have actually been similar to a Hindu concept of reincarnation. Additionally, this belief may not have been common among all Calusa. It should also be noted that the Spanish had a particular agenda which included the justification for conquering and taking over a territory. They would therefore attempt to dehumanize the Calusa and make their beliefs appear hedonistic and “savage” from a European perspective. Examples of this can be found in early colonies all over the Americas. All of this should be considered by the reader. 
-Skarurewebb 21 May 2009  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.59.171.82 (talk) 14:02, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: Reading through this entry, I think it now qualifies as a good article. Thoughts? Zeng8r (talk) 14:43, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still kind of short. I see a lot of things that can be added, and a lot of room for improvement (my initial additions to articles are not always very polished). -- Donald Albury 16:34, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  good article nominee? 

message: Per Donald Albury's request
File:Calusa fishing net fragments.jpg
File:Calusa tools and paddle.jpg
File:Calusa shells and arrowheads.jpg
File:Calusa chickee and terrace.jpg
File:Calusa mask.jpg
File:Seminole jackets and pouches.jpg
I have about six of these, and I'm trying to upload them. The upload page is pooping out, so this may take longer than I anticipated, but keep checking back I guess... --Moni3 (talk) 16:50, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The sources describe plaques and "ornamental standards", whatever those are. I don't recall a general name for animals and birds carved in the round. Plaques, anyway, seem to have been boards with animals and other designs carved into and/or painted on them.I wonder about the Calusa chickee. I've just added material to the article about the Calusa living in large communal houses that each held dozens of people. -- Donald Albury 17:38, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have images of the plaques, but as you can see, the museum is darkly lit to preserve the artifacts (I'm assuming), so most of these are slightly blurry. I did not have a tripod with me so it was a lot of deep breathing and consciously steady hands. The plaque images came out too blurry to look good at all. The objects I'm referring to are ceremonial I think, and they're long bird beaks and alligator tails made from wood. I suppose I can call them ornamental standards. I had never seen them when I went to take pictures, and unfortunately, my mindset at the time was to get something to illustrate the Indigenous people of the Everglades region article. The gator head did that nicely, so I didn't pay much attention to these other artifacts. Sloppy. --Moni3 (talk) 17:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: This article was moved without any discussion, and with no clean-up. I think that it would be better moved back to Calusa, where it had been for years. If it stays at Calusa people, then several other articles need to be fixed. I would ask that nothing be done to those other articles until we can discuss moving this article back. -- Donald Albury 00:34, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move back to Calusa?