Talk:Tahltan

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View comments (edit) Language section started, but needs thorough expansion/revision; culture/people section is a stub and needs to be separate article --Skookum1 (7 May 06)

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[edit] Splitting the article

This article should be split into Tahltan (the ethnic group) and Tahltan language. But the edit history of the good work done by User:Ish ishwar should be kept in the Tahltan language article. However, to do that, the Tahltan language (currently just a redirect) needs to be first deleted by an admin, then the current article moved to it, and the ethnicity stub portion copied to Tahltan. Does anyone disagree? Luigizanasi 17:29, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

No. heqs 13:47, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

No; d'accord, that is. And to also note that there should be separate pages for any Tahltan/Kaska national/political organizations.Skookum1 02:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Note that Ross River Dena Council and Liard River First Nation in the Yukon have been created. For the Kaska, we need Kaska Tribal Council, Kaska Dena Council (B.C.), Dease River First Nation, Lower Post First Nation, and Kwadacha First Nation. I don't know off hand what the Tahltan organisations are. Luigizanasi 03:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Tahltan First Nation for sure but there are others, I'll find them out; there's no "Tahltan Tribal Council" that I'm aware of; I think the Tahltan bands belong to a coalition council wit the Dunneza and some of the Sekani. Tahltan language should definitely be split off, maybe I'll get to that tonight. I think the Klappan Valley coal-bed methane project section should be split off to a separate article, maybe just Klappan River (although there's this pesky Category:Valleys of British Columbia category, but to me there's no point in Klappan River and Klappan Valley, ditto with any other example except for certain ones where "so-and-so valley" is a common usage). This leaves "not much" for the ethnotgraphic content of this article, which by its title should be the ethno/culture/people article; we'll see how it looks after teh detailed sections that belong in other articles are split off. Suggestions fror what to do with the coal-bed methane section welcome.Skookum1 (talk) 04:32, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] furthur split

The non-ethnographic material on the coal-bed methane proposal more properly belongs on the related aboriginal government page(s), or on Klappan Valley coal-bed methane proposal or Klappan River coal-bed methane proposal or some such title. It does not belong here, except by brief mention referring to the other article, once it is written.Skookum1 (talk) 22:41, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, I don't think the protests are supported by the gov't so I'm not sure it belongs there. A new page would work, if you think it's necessary. - TheMightyQuill (talk) 23:31, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

However, once you take out the language and the coal bed proposal, that leaves you with two sentences. Who says the Tahltan article has to be purely ethnographic? - TheMightyQuill (talk) 01:07, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

NorthAmNative project parameters and also cultural/political sensitivity; band governments are dcfeartures of the Indian Act in many FN eyes; articles for govenrmetns should be separate for articles for history and culture; there's crossover; this happens toh ave a mirrored coalbevd section on Iskut, British Columbia btw....I stopped by to comment that e government articles are needed; Iskut First Nation, Lower Post First Nation, whatever the Telegraph Creek one is rightly called (?Tahltan First Nation??) and Dease Lake First Nation; or is one of those Kaska; the Tahltan Central Council I found out about on the other page, it's the tribal council; I thnk there's a joint Kaska-Tahltan council also, I'll check back on that The ethnography pages can be quite large, once history and anthro and modern culture are added on; the band/government articles are institutional and personnel articles, infrastructure, programs etc....which reserves they govern/are assigned etc.Skookum1 (talk) 15:09, 8 June 2008 (UTC)