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A bot tagged an early draft of this article as a possible copyright violation because it included a list of Iowa tribes similiar to one in Lance Foster's Indians of Iowa. Including an alphabetical list of the historically known Indian tribes in Iowa would not be considered a violation of copyright law under a reasonable definition. There are a finite number of tribes in Iowa and there is only one way to list them alphabetically. The fact that Foster's list is the basis for this list is irrelevant, he did not put these tribes in Iowa and a full citation for Foster's work is given. The list has since been modified over the course of building the article.
Bill Whittaker (
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16:19, 21 October 2009 (UTC)reply
'Indians'?
Why is this erroneous, archaic term used as an article heading? Better would Indigenous Peoples of North America or Native Americans. The discredited misnomer, 'Indians' arose from navigators who erroneously thought that they had failed to India.
195.89.72.19 (
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17:22, 10 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Requested move 26 November 2023
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Strong support - article intro sentence says this includes the Indigenous peoples prior to arrival of Europeans, so they would not be considered "Americans" in any sense and therefore using American Indian or Native American is inappropriate. Indigenous peoples is the best neutral name and goes with Wikipedia standards of previous articles as stated by OP.
oncamera (talk page)14:02, 27 November 2023 (UTC)reply
We're more bound to
WP:COMMONNAME, and "Indigenous peoples" is not the most common name. As a matter of fact, both this article and some of those that use indigenous peoples in the title use "Native American".
estar8806 (
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★23:59, 3 December 2023 (UTC)reply
BTW Anything in English, using the name Iowa, and using that state's bounderies to defining land, is going to be anachronistic to be when discussing precontact cultures.
Yuchitown (
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16:58, 27 November 2023 (UTC)Yuchitownreply
Support. Even if you want to ignore the issues of whether or not the term "American Indian" is still used and considered proper, at the very least, it is a term that is confusing and incorrect in nature considering people actually from India also live in the United States. Articles should move to using Indigenous American or Native American (I don't really have a preference for either to be honest) since the other term gets confusing when trying to distinguish people people native to America and people native to India.
Sillypilled (
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15:47, 29 November 2023 (UTC)reply
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