Wikipedia:NMAI Native American Women Edit-a-thon

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Native American Women Edit-a-thon

Wikipedia is an openly editable resource, meaning that you can improve the quality and accuracy of Wikipedia entries. As one of the web’s most visited reference sites, Wikipedia serves as a starting point for many individuals looking to learn about art, history, and science.

During this training, attendees of all experience levels will learn the basics of how to edit Wikipedia by updating articles related to the history of Indigenous women of the Americas. Despite the name "Native American Women Edit-a-thon," the scope of this project includes Indigenous peoples from South and North Americas.

This event is planned in conjunction with the National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, a multiyear undertaking to document, research, collect, display, and share the history of women in the United States.

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Register

livestream

Zoom link upon registration

when

April 23, 2021

1:00pm-3:30pm Eastern

where

Virtual!

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No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary; training will be provided. No background in women's history is required either.

1. Create a Wikipedia account
2. Sign up below in the attendees section
3. Find an article to edit
4. Ask questions in the Zoom chat

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Stub articles that need expansion

Start-class articles that need expansion

• Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), artist
• JoAllyn Archambault (Standing Rock Sioux/Muscogee), anthropologist

C-class articles that need expansion

• Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Dakota)
• Molly Neptune Parker (Passamaquoddy)
• Molly Spotted Elk (Penobscot)

This list of articles to create was compiled from the work done by attendees of the Strong Voices Indigenous Women Edit-a-thon. Created articles may be added to Wikipedia's List of Native American women of the United States page (if they are from the United States).

• Virginia R. Beavert (Yakama): University of Washington biographical article
• Ramona Bennett: Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History Project profile page, University of Washington blog post of interview with Ramona Bennett
• Mitchelene BigMan: Women's History article
• Diane M. Burns: Best American Poetry blog post

AM New York Metro article with quotations and interview excerpts

• Maria Chona (Tohono O'odham), author, basket maker, healer: Burton, Emily Brooks. "Forgotten Food: Anthropological Marginalization of Tohono O'odham Foodways During the Indian New Deal and its Consequences." (2014), Papago Woman by Ruth Underhill, Chona, Maria Biography by Ann T. Keene, Western Woman - Tuscon.com, American Quarterly article
• Lena Frank Dick (Washoe, 1889–1965): Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, A to Z of American Indian Women
• Karen Driver (Fond du Lac Band Ojibwe), director of business development, University of Arizona: Native Nations Institute biography, The College of St. Scholastica welcome letter
• Lorraine Freeman: Winnipeg Free Press obituary, Métis Museum, InTensions Journal, [https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0380751 Dane Allard thesis, UBC
• Adelheid Herrmann (Dena'ina Athabascan) — Alaska Legislature, Alaska Pacific University
• Brenda Itta (Iñupiaq) — Alaska Legislature, Alaskool, New York Times, University of Alaska Fairbanks, photo
• Katie John (Ahtna Athabascan, 1915–2013), lead plaintiff in Katie John v. Norton, an Indigenous fishing rights case -Alaska Public Media, NPS
• Grace A. Johnson (Iñupiaq, b. 1924), Alaskan Republican state legislator — Alaska Legislature, other source material may be found at Ancestry website, not many sources on her
• Ramona Lubo (Cahuilla, 1853–1922), basket maker: A to Z of American Indian Women, The Press-Enterprise, University of California Calisphere collections (Public Domain image), Wikimedia Commons image of Ramona Lubo
• Celilo Miles (Nez Perce), fashion model: Online interview article,Model bio page
• Princess Marian (Lokono/Guyana-Barbados) Possible split from Lokono article.
• Red Thread Women's Development Organisation Guyanese women's organization
• Irene Nicholia Todd, also Irene Nicholia (Athabascan), Alaskan Democrat state legislator: Alaska Legislature, plus Doyon, Limited may have pointers to additional sources in their archives (her husband is one of their executives)
• Kay Wallis, also F. Kay Wallis (Athabascan), Alaskan Democrat state legislator: Alaska Legislature
• Patricia Whitefoot (Yakama): Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award announcement, Washington State University digital project interview
• Laura Beltz Wright: Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative, National Museum of the American Indian American Indian Magazine, Women's History article
• Mary Cornelius Winder (Oneida), land claim activist: The Oneida - Oneida Indian Nation News, Oneida Indian Nation, Observer-Dispatch article
• Colleen Echohawk (Pawnee), homelessness activist: [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_dictionary/Native_American_Women

• Daisy Taugelchee
• Louise Hickox
• Iva J. Rider "Princess Atalie Unkalunt
  "(Cherokee Nation, 1895 – 1954)]]

Dashboard Metrics

Articles edited

• heather ahtone
• Kim Anderson
• Andrea Carlson
• Deborah Clashin
• Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
• Andrea Delgado-Olson
• First Americans Museum
• Kelsey Leonard
• Alyce Spotted Bear
• Gail Tremblay
• Mary Jo Watson

Articles created

• Center of the American Indian
• Katie John

The Edit-a-thon will begin with introductory remarks by Cynthia Chavez-Lamar, then Dr. Anya Montiel will discuss Native American women and the importance of editing Wikipedia. An introduction to Wikipedia and the gender gap will be provided by Kelly Doyle, Open Knowledge Coordinator for the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.

Agenda (All times recorded in Eastern Time)

• 1:00 pm - Event begins
• 1:05 pm - Welcome and Introduction, by Cynthia Chavez-Lamar (NMAI Associate Director for Museum Collections and Operations)
• 1:10 pm - Native American Women Worklist, by Anya Montiel (NMAI Curator)
• 1:20 pm - Introduction to editing Wikipedia, by Kelly Doyle (AWHI Open Knowledge Coordinator)
• 2:00 pm–3:15 pm - Editing period (Kelly Doyle & Andrew Lih)
• 3:15 pm - Report on editing activities
• 3:20 pm - NMAI Resources, by Rachel Menyuk (NMAI Archivist)
• 3:25 pm - Closing remarks