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DYK for Ribbon work

On April 28, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ribbon work, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Shubinator (talk) 04:33, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome!!! - PKM (talk) 16:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Alejandro Mario Yllanes

On May 10, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alejandro Mario Yllanes, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Shubinator (talk) 21:20, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Native American pottery

• California Indian pottery
• Haakú Museum - Acoma
• contemporary article

Re Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California

Hi - I wanted to ask a question above the above article. Someone posted on the Help Desk that the county stated in the article was Sonoma County when Sherwood Valley is located in Mendocino County, California. When I went to look at the article, I found the link points to Mendocino, but is piped to say Sonoma County. I have zero very little knowledge of the subject area, but I guessed that this might be for historical reasons, as the Mendocino county article says it used to be under the administration of Sonomo county? I was wondering if it would be useful to add something to this effect, but I'm not too confident my guess is correct! --Kateshortforbob 22:06, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for pointing that out. You are absolutely correct. The tribe is currently located in Mendocino County, and ironically the link even pointed there but said "Sonoma". I just corrected the link. Cheers! -Uyvsdi (talk) 15:05, 14 June 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Awesome - thanks for taking a look at it! --Kateshortforbob 10:17, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Cherokee Nation

• See Talk:Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma#Name of the tribe. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:27, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK for J. B. Milam

On June 30, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article J. B. Milam, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

JamieS93 14:35, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Uyvsdi yes this is not always easy Native communities are small but we do have note worthy people in our community. How do you upload images. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Otonyona (talk • contribs) 19:13, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

First Nations art

Hello, thanks for your comments. I will probably pick up more books on Pacific Northwest art in the future and contribute the information there into the appropriate articles. Cheers. ~ AMorozov (talk) 05:27, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Benjamin Haldane

On July 24, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Benjamin Haldane, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 18:08, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Cheers

I raise a drink in your general direction. Oh, and compliments on the awesome work you're doing on that article, by the way - wish I could get it together to be of assistance. Vizjim (talk) 11:42, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Institute of American Indian Arts

I just checked and it looks like you got in before me. I reverted your original revision to get rid of the disparaging comments but was coming over to get your help making sure the correct stuff got in. Was about to go looking for the pre vandalism copy when I saw you had already finished it :) Jamesofur (talk) 01:05, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I should have looked to see what the previous edit involved before I reverted – yikes! Glad you caught it.-Uyvsdi (talk) 01:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

awsome

awesome on Tahlequah, Oklahoma and Cherokee spelling. I tried my best, but don't know the language at all. Two requests...I've added a few articles to Needs Cherokee script... maybe you can do something there as well. Second question of personal interest: What's the first word on this picture? (it's what I used)

Seb az86556 (talk) 18:12, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, those templates are standard, I didn't make them...I guess it's meant to ask for simply "Cherokee", but I could raise that somewhere... What should it say? Seb az86556 (talk) 18:22, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

OK, I changed it... does make more sense? Seb az86556 (talk) 18:34, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Nadaco

On September 13, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nadaco, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Wikiproject: Did you know? 18:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome, Uyvsdi. Please be encouraged to self-nominate your next good wikicontribution for DYK. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 02:12, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Zemi

Once again you've popped up on my watchlist! I'd seen that page nominated for merging with Taíno and and thought of doing something about it, but what with school and all I have so little time. Anyhow, nice work and glad to see you're still around. I'll look around on Flickr for a free image of a Zemi... Lithoderm 05:18, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

No credit necessary for the drawing. You can remove my username. ~RayLast 06:10, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Done. Lithoderm 07:49, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of that. Eventually I will get back to adding more media to Native American art; writing brief overviews of wide-ranging topics is challenging though. Hope your semester is going well! -Uyvsdi (talk) 17:12, 20 September 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

This set has a ton of Taino artifacts if you browse through it. This one is particularly nice, and I've found this user willing in the past to change the licenses when need be (for Transformation mask). This is the best shot of a three-pointer I could find, but it's still an odd angle. See what you think, and I'll contact the user of whichever one we agree would be best. Cheers, Lithoderm 04:17, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that research! The second one is fantastic. I have information about it in the book Taíno. If you could get permission to use the photo, that would be awesome! Best, Uyvsdi (talk) 04:24, 22 September 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

BTW I have tons of museum pics of Native American art (most North American but some South America) from this summer that I'll eventually add to commons, so let me know if there's anything in particular you need down the road. Uyvsdi (talk) 04:27, 22 September 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

That would be great. I've messaged the Flickr user. Lithoderm 11:42, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Zemi

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Orlady (talk) 20:21, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism at Spiro Mounds by 75.57.173.150

Hi Uyvsdi! Thanks for reverting the vandalism done by 75.57.173.150 at Spiro Mounds. However, his/her last warning, just a few minutes before, was a Level 3 warning, {{Uw-vandalism3}}. Thus, you should have applied a Level 4 warning, {{Uw-vandalism4}}. By not applying the correct level, you permit a vandalizing editor four more malicious edits before any recent changes patrollers, like yourself, can file a report at WP:AIV. Would you please consider deleting your Level 1 warning and replacing it with {{Uw-vandalism4}}? Thanks! — SpikeToronto (talk) 04:58, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Not necessary. I found enough of his/her other vandalizing edits to make up the difference. But, just remember in future to escalate up one warning Level from the previous warning if the previous warning is recent. Thanks! — SpikeToronto (talk) 05:04, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Okay, fair enough. Thanks for the info about protocol. Cheers, Uyvsdi (talk) 05:13, 7 October 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Vandalism at Spiro Mounds? Who ever heard of such a thing? Talk about depressingly familiar... --Orange Mike | Talk 19:53, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello

Ok no problem here.... what ever you think is best...Great job on Native American art!!

		The Society Barnstar
		Awarded to Uyvsdi for extensive contributions to Native American art related articles Buzzzsherman (talk) 04:58, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Misunderstanding

Sorry if I was unclear; what I was trying to say is that if this is notable, then we need to stop piping it to the college and create an article about the style itself instead. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:52, 6 November 2009 (UTC) (Inali)

Now that's what I'm talking about! Excellent work! --Orange Mike | Talk 20:12, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Henrik Lund

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Materialscientist (talk) 12:49, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

John Hoover (Aleut) b. 1919

No Wikipage yet, but a fine PD photo of one of his sculptures is available at http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/Tours/Garden_Exhibit6/hoover.html

--along with some others from a White House exhibit in the Clinton years. I recently posted that Willard Stone sculpture to his page. Stone was one of my Mom's favorites -- we always enjoyed seeing the Stone collection at the Gilcrease, and elsewhere around OK. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit her one Stone original.

Actually, I'm not sure what the copyright status would be of a US govt photo of a sculpture by a living artist -- deceased would be OK, I think. Do you know those rules?

Best, Pete Tillman (talk) 05:31, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Harrison Begay

Heh, I see he was on your to-do list too. A long-time favorite of mine & my family -- I was inspired by seeing his student work at the very fine current Wheelwright show, which you should try to get to -- runs well into 2010, ims. Catalog is a must-buy if you like the Dorothy Dunn studio style.

Anyway, if you would like to add the bells & whistles, go for it -- I'm very rusty on infoboxes and project banners, but I think I got the basics. Interesting that he had a silkscreen print business with Gerald Nailor, Sr.. A pleasant surprise that he's still working, or was recently anyway. At 95, he should be able to take a break...

Sad news re Michael Kabotie. I had a nice visit with him last year, after he gave a talk to the NAU group in Sedona. A nice man and a very talented artist. Makes you think. I didn't get a flu shot before they ran out, either... Best, Pete Tillman (talk) 06:05, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I did see the Wheelwright show and it was good - the "Be Kind to Animals" painting was my favorite. I never knew Michael Kabotie - just saw him briefly last year at the Heard. For project banners, you might just cut-and-paste from relevant articles' talk pages. I usually try to at least get the { { North Am Native } } (sans spaces) template up. Took a photo of the John Hoover sculpture today. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 00:25, 20 November 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

DYK for Gunstock war club

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Calmer Waters (talk) 01:01, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

RE: Spoke card

Heya, no problem :) I'm not an admin either so the best thing you can do to a repeat vandal is just escalate the warnings until they get blocked. Happy vandal hunting! Smokizzy (talk) 06:12, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks mucho. Maybe the guy finally got bored and found something else to do. Cheers, Uyvsdi (talk) 18:19, 23 November 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Your improvements to Klamath Tribes

Hi, I don't think we've talked before, but your name sure comes up a lot on my watchlist! I've done a somewhat adequate job of improving the content on Indian tribes in Oregon and it's nice to see someone else working in the same area. I have lots of plans and a short attention span, so I tend to work intensely in this area for a while then not work on it again for a long time. Anyway, thanks for your work on Klamath Tribes. One of my earliest (and strangest) confrontations on Misplaced Pages was over the water rights dispute (as seen on the talk page). Feelings certainly run high over this issue and the contributions to the topic have pretty much been slanted to one POV or another. I knew that to do it justice, I would have to spend a lot of time working on it, so I never got started. I also always thought that the topic was worthy of its own article. What do you think? I haven't followed the recent developments--is it still timely enough that a separate article is necessary? There's been some excellent work on Klamath River, Klamath Basin, etc. by a rivers enthusiast that includes some of the story. I'm just never sure where the best place to cover the water rights topic is, hence the idea that it be a separate article. It seems to overlap so many different areas, literally and figuratively. Cheers! Katr67 (talk) 21:01, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Hola! Thanks for providing information about contemporary tribes - there's not enough about living Indians on Misplaced Pages. Regarding the Klamath water dispute, I just felt really bad because I had deleted a previous user's narrative about the water dispute as it was POV and uncited – although most likely 100% accurate – so I felt I should provide fairly neutral information about the dispute (dates, names of court cases). I'm not from the area so only have superficial knowledge of the dispute. I deleted the redlink, since the article didn't exist, but I'll restore it to encourage its creation. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 21:16, 25 November 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

DYK for Gerald McMaster

On November 26, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gerald McMaster, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 13:52, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Cahuilla

Hi Uyvsdi,

Nice to make your acquaintance, I have run across your username quite a bit :) I'll be happy to see what I can add to Cahuilla language. Cheers, babbage (talk) 21:45, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much - specially the language codes... I know it's "chl" now, but don't know if that works for all three numbers. Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 22:06, 14 December 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan

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Information was primarily gleaned from the tribal website but I didn't use a single sentence from the site's text. -Uyvsdi (talk) 22:29, 18 December 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

IP edits to Indian reservation

Hi! This afternoon, an acquaintance of mine noticed vandalism within a Misplaced Pages article -- Indian reservation -- and, knowing that I was an experienced Misplaced Pages editor, asked me what she should do. I said that she should correct the vandalism she saw, which she did, in two edits: here and here. A short time later, I came along, looked through the article history, and restored an older, pre-vandalized version of the intro paragraph -- this edit.

As you can see from her edits, they were clearly done in good faith. However, the notice you left at her IP surprised her, as she was only attempting to fix what she thought was vandalism. This message has the potential to give her the impression that attempting to make small, good-faith corrections is something that will result in harsh warnings from other editors. I'm sure she'd appreciate an apology for the harsh message that was left on her IP talk page. It reflects well on Misplaced Pages and the Misplaced Pages community when we recognize and actively try to correct our mistakes. Thanks! -- Sethant (talk) 03:11, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

So sorry, you are correct. The "crazy whitches" vandal was working from two IP addresses and I accidently sent the warning to the user correcting the article. I have left an apology and explanation on her talk page. Thank you for pointing out my mistake. -Uyvsdi (talk) 05:49, 4 January 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Thanks so much! :) -- Sethant (talk) 00:40, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Black Indians Photo

Hi Uyvsdi. I wanted to say thank you for finding more information on the Black Indians photo I put up. How did you find that? I couldn't find it when I was trying to find if there was something on it only thing I could find was what instituition was holding the picture.Mcelite (talk) 03:11, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Things looks more complex than I thought. The image is in several archives but the Denver Public Library (Western History Collection, X-30541) has completely different information about the image than the Oklahoma Historical Society has. There doesn't seem to be a stable URL, but you can go here and enter "Chapman Cheyenne" and this photograph will be the second image to show up.

I can't distinguish 19th century Ute and Cheyenne beadwork and clothing by sight, but I can take this image to people more knowledgeable to find out which caption is more likely to be correct. -Uyvsdi (talk) 04:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi

If it's not an inconvience for you I would like it if you could possibly find more on the photo. When I first found the photo the Denver Public Library was the only source popping up that didn't copy the picture. So this is something that is quite interesting.Mcelite (talk) 22:15, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Just heard back from my friend who belongs to Southern Plains tribes but grew up on a Great Basin reservation: "Just looked at the pic on my bb and those women have cheyenne mocs on. That is NOT ute beadwork. Also, I'm not positive, but I don't think utes ever wore drops from their belts w/studs like that. I'd say they were cheyennes. I'll show the pic to my mom w/the captions to double check." Very interesting! Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 22:58, 14 January 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi

That is quite interesting.Mcelite (talk) 22:23, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

photo captions

Hi, when you upload images to commons - and I know it's more work - please add details like what event, where, when, etc. This helps gives context for others on finding and using images. -- Banjeboi 19:50, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

While I want to provide images of living Native peoples for use on Misplaced Pages, I also want to maintain some sense of privacy for the individuals in the photographs. For instance I didn't list the names of any children in the photographs I uploaded, nor will I. -Uyvsdi (talk) 21:09, 18 January 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi

???

This week must be "Promote Yourself on Misplaced Pages Week" - it's amazing how many people have been adding themselves to articles recently. -Uyvsdi (talk) 01:43, 22 January 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi

If I'm not mistaken, this is exactly what you've done by adding this image, along with the caption "Kevin Pourier is an Oglala Lakota jeweler and sculptor whose medium is buffalo horn". No offense, but "Kevin Pourier" (I assume that's you because the photo is listed as your own work) is not notable, and the caption reads like shameless self-promotion. Please consider removing your personal details and replacing it with generic info relevant to the articles in which it appears (i.e., "Oglala Lakota male", etc.). Thanks. Bueller 007 (talk) 05:26, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

That's too funny. No, I'm not Kevin Pourier, though flattered that you think so. Since I took the photograph, the photo is my work. Listing the media he works in is hardly promotional; however, Pourier is notable - Just google him - he's widely collected by museums and widely written about. His photo illustrates a unique contemporary Oglala Lakota individual, as opposed to an "Oglala Lakota male," which sounds more like a police profile. -Uyvsdi (talk) 05:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Heh. I suppose KP is on your "to-do" list? I bought my wife a pair of his inlaid buff-horn earrings a couple of IMarkets back and they were *very* well-received. I could even try photographing them for the article. Nice guy, fabulous work.

I should really bring the camera to IMarket next year. If I can remember to charge the batteries the night before.... Best, Pete Tillman (talk) 17:33, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Wakash Indians

Maybe I should just raise this at NorthAmNative but I see you've been doing a lot of assessing for that WP and thought I'd field it to you; someone just removed the 2006-vintage cleanup tag from it but it needs something more than cleanup; it needs either deletion or some kind of merge/redirection...but to where? To Wakashan languages maybe, I guess. As you know the Catholic Encyclopedia is scarcely a modern source and many of its definitions are passe - this being one of them. While there is a Coast Salish peoples article, vs. Coast Salish languages, that's because there is some kind of commonality between Coast Salish peoples; that's not so much teh case here, other than linguistically (components being Makah, Nuu-chah-nulth/Ditidaht, Kwakwaka'wakw, Wuikinuxv/Oweekeno, Heiltsuk and Haisla). anyway jsut field this for your thoughts; as I recall, I think, you're a linguist so maybe you have some thoughts on how to deal with this; it may be as simple as turning this title into a redirect ot Wakashan languages; other than that it's just out-of-date.....as is, for example, the use of the term "Cowidgin" (Cowichan today) to refer to the Sto:lo and Skwxwu7mesh et al (i.e. any Salish group around the Gulf of Georgia/Puget Sound) or "Kwakiutl" to refer to the Kwakwaka'wakw (even though that's still the name for htem in other languages....so far).....btw on an inside front cover of a certain book on BC history vintage about 1958 there was an historical map which labelled Vancouver Island as "Wakish Nation".....Skookum1 (talk) 01:23, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm not a linguist but I know User:Babbage is. I agree that it makes sense to turn it into a redirect for Wakashan languages. It's misleading to have an article about a language family titled "Wakash Indians", none of the information is very valuable, and it barely gets read twice a day. -Uyvsdi (talk) 20:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment

I saw your post on the Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America‎, and I read the discussion. I think it might be useful to get a few views or comments from editors outside the project! Anyway, I was thinking you could make a listing on Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment. Cheers, oncamera 19:49, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Fair Use stuff

Thanks for the star, & the kind words.

I've had mixed luck with posting FU stuff. So far, the Amerind art hasn't drawn any real flak, so maybe I'll do some more. It is nice to get illos into more articles. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 00:15, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Especially the artists that most people aren't already familiar with - I was amazed you found an image for Stanford Plummer! Cheers, -Uyvsdi (talk) 00:51, 9 February 2010 (UTC)Uyvsdi

Climate change denial

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