Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America

• WP:TRIBE is the shortcut to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ethnicities and tribes)
  and also covers many of issues addressed above.

From the Associated Press

• AP changes writing style to capitalize ″b″ in Black. By The Associated Press, June 19, 2020. "The news organization will also now capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place."

From APA style

• APA Style - Racial and Ethnic Identity. Section 5.7 of the APA Publication Manual, Seventh Edition, September 2019.

  Racial and ethnic groups are designated by proper nouns and are capitalized. ... capitalize terms such as “Native American,” “Hispanic,” and so on. Capitalize “Indigenous” and “Aboriginal” whenever they are used. Capitalize “Indigenous People” or “Aboriginal People” when referring to a specific group (e.g., the Indigenous Peoples of Canada), but use lowercase for “people” when describing persons who are Indigenous or Aboriginal (e.g., “the authors were all Indigenous people but belonged to different nations”).

From The Chicago Manual of Style

• Capitalization: 'We would capitalize “Indigenous” in both contexts: that of Indigenous people and groups, on the one hand, and Indigenous culture and society, on the other. Lowercase “indigenous” would be reserved for contexts in which the term does not apply to Indigenous people in any sense—for example, indigenous plant and animal species.'

From the Native American Journalists Association

• Reporter's Indigenous Terminology Guide
• "So you need an Indigenous Expert... Start here"
• NAJA AP Style Guide
• More reporting guides, on water protectors arrested at actions, etc.

Some example of

WP:RS

publications and media outlets that capitalize "Indigenous" when referring to Indigenous people (not a complete list, by any means)

• The New York Times [13]
• Chicago Tribune [14]
• Los Angeles Times [15]
• The Christian Science Monitor [16]
• Forbes [17]
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC): [18]
• The Guardian [19]

External links

• WP:RS
  , if there might be useful info, resources or links therein, add it here.

Reference books

• Phillip M. White (October 2004). Bibliography of Native American bibliographies. Greenwood Publishing Group.
  ISBN 978-0-313-31941-9
  .
• Fagan, Brian M. (2000). Ancient North America: The archaeology of a continent (3rd ed.). New York: Thames and Hudson.
• Landar, Herbert. (1973). The tribes and languages of North America: A checklist. In T. A. Sebeok (Ed.), Current trends in linguistics: Linguistics in North America (Vol. 10, pp. 1253-1441). The Hague: Mouton.
• Sturtevant, William C. (Ed.). (1978-present). Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 1-20). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. (Vols. 1-3, 16, 18-20 not yet published).
• Poser, Bill. (2006). The Names of the First Nations Languages of British Columbia.
• Sonneborn, Liz (2007). A to Z of American Indian Women. A to Z of women (Rev. ed.). New York: Facts On File.
  ISBN 9780816066940
  .

• Everett, Deborah (2008). Encyclopedia of Native American Artists. Artists of the American mosaic, ISSN 1939-1218. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
  ISBN 9780313337628
  .
• Reno, Dawn E. (1995). Contemporary Native American Artists. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Alliance Publishing.
  ISBN 0964150964
  .
• Roger Matuz, ed. (1998). St. James Guide to Native North American Artists. Detroit: St. James Press.
  ISBN 1558622217
  .

Stats

Indigenous peoples of North America articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total FA 2 3 8 14 4 31 FL 1 1 A 1 1 GA 1 8 20 52 51 132 B 12 69 108 170 3 333 695 C 17 153 298 692 3 1,298 2,461 Start 10 117 582 1,756 1 3,609 6,075 Stub 13 132 1,571 1 1 2,401 4,119 List 2 5 16 56 154 233 Category 1 3,490 3,491 NA 5 9 33 985 2 1,034 Assessed 44 374 1,174 4,345 4,483 1 7,852 18,273 Unassessed 1 6 249 256 Total 44 374 1,175 4,351 4,483 1 8,101 18,529 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 67,283 Ω = 4.98

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As a great deal of work has been already done both within and outside WikiProject Ethnic groups, the task ahead looks less daunting than that it did in 2004, but no less important and immense for that reason.

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