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</head><body text="#000000">There are the tribal government systems that
are elected these in general are recognised by the Canadian Government
but there are also those are traditional and often one person will take
the lead for one thing and someone else for another. For example
fishing might have a particular leader whilst talking to government
someone else will take the lead. It can be difficult to navigate.
There can also be conflicts of interest which are not at first apparent.<br>
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It takes some expertise to work in the languages but they do exist and I
think should be respected.<br>
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Cheerio John<br>
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<span>Clay Smalley wrote on 12/2/2022 2:23 PM:</span><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>From the US, I've also been concerned with the
renaming of reservations to tribe names—an ethnic group is not an
administrative boundary. Most tribes use different words to describe
their people, their modern-day reservations, and their historical
homelands. This distinction should be reflected on OSM.<br></div><div
dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 1:22 PM john
whelan <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">But with whom do you
consult? There are more than 500,000 people and that means lots of
different opinions and there are also different authorities.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've
contacted tribal governments in the US before. They're usually pretty
responsive. Not sure how it is in Canada.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px
solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Then
which language should you use?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In
my opinion: Indigenous language first if known. Other official
languages of whatever surrounding administrative entity they belong to
may be included too.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px
solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">On
first contact many had no written language so today a number use a
written language that looks remarkably like shorthand and probably arose
from the clergy writing down what was said.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What
is meant by this? The spelling systems that Indigenous groups use today
are well-documented and correspond to phonemes in their respective
languages. They're certainly suitable for display on digital maps. That
many of them were originally invented by settler missionaries is
irrelevant.</div><div><br></div><div>-Clay<br></div></div></div>
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