Talk:Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast

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Contents 1 Project Started 1.1 Northwest Journal of Linguistics 2 Indigenous nations in Washington state 3 Cultural things 4 Makah, Quileute, Chinook/Chinookan

[edit] Project Started

I've been wanting to start this for articles in this reigion. Everytime I linked Indigenous or Indigenous peoples of North America, I knew those article were too expansive, along with even Aboriginal peoples in Canada or Native Americans in the United States of America. This article was created to give a closer look at these cultures, and also use a place to work from for all the nations listed within. It'll be able to give outsiders, newcomers, or who ever, a better introduction to the Indigenous people in this area, considering the culture of this area is massivly different from the rest of North America, hell, all of the America's. Well ladies and gentlemen, I have built it, let's see who comes. OldManRivers 21:00, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Northwest Journal of Linguistics

New electronic publication featuring highly technical articles on NW linguistics- [1] Best,—ACADEMY LEADER ^FOCUS! 18:37, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indigenous nations in Washington state

I would like to add more on the Indigenous people on the West Coast of Washington. I know the Makah are Nuu-chah-nulth and most of the Indigenous people in the Pugit Sound are Coast Salish but right now the article does have a major Canadian bias. OldManRivers 00:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural things

One of the failing of an article like this is generalization. Cultures different a lot for some area's but still remained the same (same meat, different packaging.) For example, the Skwxwu7mesh and Kwakwaka'wakw cultures can be very different sometimes, most evident in the potlatching. But the purpose of the potlatch still remains the same. Things such as art, music and history can very a lot too. If there is something that I took away or you disagree with on the page, let me know and I would like to discuss it. OldManRivers 00:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Makah, Quileute, Chinook/Chinookan

I don't have time right now to add bits on the Makah, into the Nuu-cha-nulth section as a subsubsection, the Quileute (who have absorbed the surviving Chemakuans from what is now Clallam/Twana turf); the Chinooks are usually held to be the southern "pole" of the Northwest Coast cultures; not sure why the Tillamooks aren't.....but the Chinook should probably be on here....Skookum1 (talk) 20:02, 11 April 2008 (UTC) PS I made a redirect Northwest Coast culture which directs here....guess I'll do the same for Northwest Coast cultures (plural).Skookum1 (talk) 20:02, 11 April 2008 (UTC)