Talk:Kituwa

message: I actually live near this area and my family is from Bryson City.  This is the first time I have ever read that the ancient Cherokee priesthood obtained power through fear - there is no citation for this and it does not fit with history.  I would like to dispute the author's assumption.  We don't know much about the original Keetoowah priesthood, but the mentioning of fear appears to reveal the author's perception garnered from Western Anglo traditions where the priesthood does use fear to control the church body. Thus this is a cultural inferential statement based on his/her culture.
71.90.237.42 (talk) 06:09, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Your question led me to the Ani-kutani page, which repeated the "fear" idea, but sourced it to James Mooney. So I dug up the source on Google Books, Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, found the page and added it as a source, explicitly mentioning it comes from Mooney. Whether Mooney got a false or distorted view of Cherokee mythology I don't know. It's certainly possible. Hmm, note that Mooney only says the Cherokee people were "in awe" of the "Nicotani" and "greatly feared" them, not that the Nicotani/Ani-kutani "obtained power through fear". Perhaps some rewording is in order. Pfly (talk) 08:05, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Fear

message: I am editing this article. I am not finished and will provide references shortly.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Odestiny (talk • contribs) 01:25, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
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message: , you are making unsubstantiated claims in the article without providing any sources to back up your claims. This may be how Wikipedia operated when it began and even as long as a few years ago but it has changed. Provide sources when you edit or do not make changes. Anyone can very easily remove your non-sourced material but if you provide inline references and present it in a neutral way within the article then it most likely will not be contested. Simply adding something because you believe it to be true does not make it true. --Tsistunagiska (talk) 14:55, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: What are you referring to, specifically? The body of the article says that the Cherokee consider this their Mother Town in the Southeast, which is why I added "in the Southeast" to the Lede. You are welcome to make more additions and to cite Reliable Sources.Parkwells (talk) 22:20, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not originate this article and am not responsible for most of its content. It would be helpful if you would take a less aggressive, lecturing tone with me. You added content and did not provide cites, for instance, taking content and a nearly direct quote from a short article in Cherokee News. In terms of future practice, it is better to paraphrase content unless you intend to quote it. In terms of improving this article, every paragraph that is not sourced could be labeled with a banner , and maybe other editors will help find more sources.Parkwells (talk) 22:20, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I have corrected some of your additions, because you essentially quoted from the article in the Cherokee News and did not put the material in quotes, re: the Keetoowah/Kituwa defending the region from Iroquois and Algonquian peoples from the north. Since you used content from that article in other unsourced paragraphs and sentences, I added cites there, too.Parkwells (talk) 22:20, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are mistaken because I haven't quoted anything from the Cherokee News in this article. Please view the history before accusing me of something, thank you. In regards to the content of the article, it is common practice on Wikipedia to hold each individual editor responsible for their edits. So you are judged by what you add, not by what others add. --Tsistunagiska (talk) 08:56, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You wanted an example so here is one I didn't revert. diff that you made in which you removed the Cherokee as being the specific subject and left it ambiguous when you had no proof and added no references that justified you removing the Cherokee as the subject. That is not improving what was written. That is trying to sway the reader into believing your POV that other cultures besides the Cherokee or their ancestors were present here. That may be true but you provided no proof it is true because neither you nor science can definitively prove that those present during the Pisgah phase and the Qualla phase are not related in any way. That is why I asked you to provide in-line references when you "improve" articles. --Tsistunagiska (talk) 09:19, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: We can disagree about word choice, but it is really stretching the point to say that I have to provide a cite for choosing to use "They": because "They" follows the sentence featuring the Cherokee as the subject, "They" is a pronoun that refers directly to the Cherokee. It has no purpose other than that, so please stop telling me what I intended, and accusing me of bias for using a common English pronoun in an appropriate way.Parkwells (talk) 19:49, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Secondly, I apologize for not studying the history more thoroughly; I was working too fast, and had just read the Cherokee News article, which you had used as a cite in previous discussion. So I acknowledge my error, but perhaps you could thank me for taking the initiative to create citations for unsourced material in this article. Parkwells (talk) 19:49, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Present evidence when making edits 

message: I have added a brief paragraph to the Lead summarizing the history of the site and the EBCI's purchase in 1996, and their archeological studies that influence their decision on current uses. American Archeology, Fall 2009 <https://www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/?wpfb_dl=64> has a very informative article about the tribe's use of archeological studies since 1997, including non-invasive techniques, that have resulted in findings that influence their decisions about uses for this site. I recommend using material from this article to add more to the article content about the Cherokee and their ancestors at this site before the colonial era. Also recommend putting material about the current state of the site together into "20th c. section", rather than in older history.Parkwells (talk) 19:19, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest adding more history of site to Lead and article content