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Don't want to be unnecessarily skeptical, but ordinarily there would be no real reason for any language to have a name for a continent specifically unless the speakers of that language were aware of the existence of more than one continent...
AnonMoos (
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20:28, 6 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Agreed. This article currently states, without justification, that Turtle Island is a concept referring to North America specifically... rather than "the land that humans know", or "the world", etc.
Mebden (
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23:29, 31 May 2019 (UTC)reply
I'm going to move it to a new title that isn't specifically tied to North America, as I agree that the name does not seem to have been originally intended to refer specifically to North America, but to all land on Earth.
Kaldari (
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22:03, 15 March 2020 (UTC)reply
The foundational sources for this page agree that Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands used terms variously translated as Turtle Island to refer to the known world which to them was North America. The term referred to the known world of those Native Americans and they knew solely of North America and thus today the term has become associated with North America alone.
No reliable sources have been provided that reject this notion and considering that the change to the name "Turtle Island (Indigenous North American folklore)" has also caused controversy regarding the eurocentrism of the term folkore, I'm going to suggest moving the page back to "Turtle Island (North America)".
AethyrX (
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21:47, 21 December 2023 (UTC)reply
Why do you say they only knew North America? Indigenousin North and South America have many genetical similarities (see
Genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and there was much exchange, from today's Mexico to Canada and Ecuador and Bolivia. As well as many of the Caribbean and Pacific Islands. The idea that they only knew North America is very.... North American.
204.101.158.131 (
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19:46, 31 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Requested move 11 May 2024
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requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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:Oppose. The term is used by too many different people for too many different geographic locations. In this instance, a disambiguation page makes sense.
Yuchitown (
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14:03, 11 May 2024 (UTC)Yuchitownreply
Support per nom, also agree with oncamera that 'folklore' should be replaced with something else if not moved. Maybe like "concept," since it has largely evolved past being simply "folklore" from one culture. Other suggestions would be appreciated.
PersusjCP (
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03:46, 12 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Page traffic aside, looking through google scholar hits are overwhelmingly as a different name for north america—
blindlynx22:57, 14 May 2024 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.