[Talk-ca] First Nations reserve naming

[Clay Smalley]

>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.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 1:22 PM john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I've contacted tribal governments in the US before. They're usually pretty
responsive. Not sure how it is in Canada.

Then which language should you use?
>

In my opinion: Indigenous language first if known. Other official languages
of whatever surrounding administrative entity they belong to may be
included too.


> 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.
>

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.

-Clay
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