Talk:Sahaptin people

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[edit] Tribe or language/culture group?

First noting that the Catholic Encylopedia's definitions/descriptions of aboriginal peoples are largely out-of-date and also not authoritative, I'm not sure here that this should be a "people" page; it is a group of peoples, basically defined linguistically; there is already a Nez Perce page, for instance, and the name Sahaptin as a subgroup of Sahaptian (which includes Nez Perce) includes the Umatilla, Cayuse and Walla Walla, all of which already have pages. I'll reread the Catholic Encyclopedia carefully to see if there's any reason to keep this page; but I get the impression it would best be amalgamated to Sahaptian languages or Sahaptin language; unless a defined tribe exists that is separate from the Umatilla, Cayuse, Nez Perce etc.Skookum1 17:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

• Since I lack the expertise and sources, I can oly wish you good luck finding a good home on appropriate page(s) for all salavageable data from Catholic Encyclopaedia (which still seems to have quite some other Indian articles without Wikipedia page), such as probably a section on Missions Fastifex 21:08, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

If this article doesn't get merged, pared down or redirected, it is badly in need of wikification, formatting and general copyediting. Katr67 05:03, 23 November 2006 (UTC)