Template talk:First Nations in Alberta

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Add {{First Nations in Alberta}} to articles pertaining First Nations in Alberta, their local governments and reserves.

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Provincial First Nations harmonization

I've recently created navboxes for First Nations in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, so I'm making a few edits in order to have all (Western) Canadian FN navboxes match each other.

The basic hierarchical organization should be pretty versatile: it primarily uses the tribal council structure, but has space for unaffiliated and unrecognized nations too. The ethnolinguistic/ethnocultural group section is more debatable. Here's the rules I'm holding myself to:

• I'm eliminating endonym/exonym distinctions because, although the motivations behind this bilingualism are certainly admirable, it puts a lot of exonyms on display which are no longer even current in the English language. I think a single name should be displayed for each nation, aggressively defaulting to the endonym unless there exists an exonym which is a) significantly more recognizable in everyday use and b) generally used in English-language materials by the specific nation in question. (For instance "Cree" passes this test.)

• Because the bulk of the navbox is dedicated to contemporary tribal governments and organizations, I'm thinning out nations which are no longer present in Alberta's territory, but still exist elsewhere. This removes some historical perspective, but I believe it magnifies the impact of the rest of the wikibox, which should be structured in a way which demonstrates that First Nations are relevant to the life of Alberta as we know it today.

Let me know if you have any thoughts about this, making these decisions right is important for the task of getting Canadian FN templates into shape.

Awmcphee (talk) 04:57, 16 June 2019 (UTC)