Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Indigenous peoples of North America. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America is a project closely related and descending from the WikiProject Ethnic groups, covering all information on Indigenous peoples of North America available at Wikipedia, with the purpose of providing a unified coordination of all articles, stubs, categories and lists on the topic and closely related subjects.

[edit] Motivation

When WikiProject Ethnic groups got started, back in January 2004, there was great lack of contents on the subject both in quantity and quality, as well as an absence of uniform criteria to cover the many ethnic matters to be included in Wikipedia. Today, as of February 2006, the situation appears very different. Enormous resources have been added and continue to be everyday, and the amount of information is exhaustive on many ethnic matters. The organization and coordination of the large volume of ethnic information currently available is a challenging task.

As the first big step has already been taken by the parent project, certain specific, yet very big and diversed groups like the Indigenous peoples of North America are in need of a particular coordinating project that can organize the now vast related contents, improve them when possible, detect missing and incomplete articles and either create them or enhance them, and provide a coordinated effort in this direction. 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 of two years ago, but no less important and immense for that reason.

[edit] Scope

This project aims to encompass all historical, ethnical, and cultural aspects of the many groups collectively described as Indigenous peoples of North America, including First Nations in Canada, Native Americans in the United States, and indigenous peoples of Mexico (parts of Mexico within the Mesoamerican culture area(s) are often excluded from North America).

[edit] Goals

1. Eliminate transwiki links to articles in other Wikipedias that don't exist, or create articles in that language,

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[edit] General Strategy and Discussion forum

If possible, the natural place to be used as the discussion forum is the project's talk page. Whenever needed, discussion can be moved to a more appropriate place regarding a particular matter.