WikiProject -- Indians of North America -- Tasks

These are some of the tasks being worked on for the Indians of North America Project.

Prepare Pages for NGS Conference 2010
These tasks need to be done before 1 April 2010 in preparation for the NGS Conference presentation in Salt Lake City during the last week of April 2010.

General Indian Pages

 * Add content and "spruce up" American Indian Genealogy page
 * Edit Area Offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and add links as needed
 * Add content, including document images, to the record type pages:
 * Indian census rolls
 * Allotment Register
 * Annuity roll
 * Reports of BIA Field Offices
 * School attendance record
 * Individual Pupil record
 * After content is added to the document pages, edit those pages.

State Pages

 * Create at least two columns for the Tribes and Bands of Montana section of the Indians of Montana page
 * Add a representative photo of Montana Indians on this page

Tribal Pages

 * Clean up pages and add content as needed to the pages for the major Indian Tribes in Montana.


 * Assiniboin
 * Needs an image
 * Needs additions to "brief history"
 * Blackfeet
 * Needs an image
 * Needs "Brief History"
 * Chippewa-Cree
 * Needs "Brief Timeline"
 * Needs "Brief History"
 * Needs "Additional References..."
 * Needs "Records"
 * after all of the above, then remove "Stub" tag
 * Crow
 * Needs an image
 * Needs additions to "Brief History"
 * Flathead
 * Needs an image
 * Grosventre
 * Needs an image
 * Needs additions to "Brief History"
 * Kalispel
 * Needs an image
 * needs additions to "Brief History"
 * Kootenai
 * Needs an image
 * Needs additions to "Brief History"
 * Needs "Additional References..."
 * Then remove "Stub" tag
 * Northern Cheyenne
 * Needs an image
 * Needs "Brief History"
 * Needs "Additional References..."
 * Needs "Records"
 * Then remove "Stub" tag
 * Piegan
 * Needs an image
 * Needs additions to "Brief History"
 * Needs "Reservations"
 * Needs "Tribal Headquarters"
 * Spokane
 * Needs an image
 * Needs "Brief History"
 * Needs "Reservations"
 * Then remove "Stub" tag


 * Clean up pages and add content as needed to the pages for the minor Indian Tribes in Montana.


 * Arapaho
 * Arikara
 * Bannock
 * Hidatsa
 * Kiowa
 * Mandan
 * Nez Perce
 * Okanagan
 * Shoshoni
 * Sioux

Reservation Pages

 * Add content to selected reservation pages:


 * History section of Rocky Boy's Reservation page

Agency Pages

 * Add content to selected agency pages:


 * Add content under the subheading of History on the page for the Crow Indian Agency
 * Add content under the subheading of History on the page for the Tongue River Indian Agency

Images

 * Find and upload photos of Montana Indian Tribes
 * Find and upload photos of reservations of Montana
 * Find and upload photos of agency buildings of Montana
 * Find and upload copies of American Indian documents

To Be Completed By 1 April 2010
This is a list of tasks and/or features that need to be completed before 1 April 2010, in anticipation of the National Genealogical Society Conference to be held in Salt Lake City 27-30 April 2010. 

Assigned to Norma Dalton, Project Team Member

 * 1) Go through all pages for reservations and, where the state is identified, add a category to that page for "[state] Indian Reservations"
 * 2) To add the category, go to the reservation page, click on Edit, scroll to the bottom of the page, and add the category by typing .
 * 3) Be sure to click Save Page
 * 4) Colonies should be treated as reservations.
 * 5) California Rancherias should NOT have the category of Indian Reservations added to their pages (see the task of "Add Category to California Rancheria Pages, As Needed" below.

Assigned to Norma Dalton, Project Team Member

 * 1) Check all of the pages for Rancherias in California to make sure that they have a Category of "California Indian Rancherias." Most of them should have that category already added.
 * 2) If they do not have that category, add it to the page by scrolling to the bottom of the page and adding the category by typing .
 * 3) Be sure to click Save Page

Edit Pages
Many of the pages on the Research Wiki need some editing. All project team members should look for spelling errors, grammatical errors, typos, etc. as you are editing or adding to the pages. Please sign up for specific assignments if you would like to volunteer for these tasks.

Edit Indians of [State] Pages, As Needed

 * 1) Check the 49 state pages for "Indians of [state]", for spelling, typographical, grammatical, and other errors and make corrections, as needed.
 * 2) In some cases, clarifications in meanings may be needed. Make them, as needed.
 * 3) If descriptions of websites or other items on the page are needed, add them.
 * 4) Add links to tribes, reservations, agencies, schools, health facilities, etc.(See task instructions on adding links)
 * 5) Status Report

Edit Tribe Pages, As Needed

 * 1) Check the pages for individual tribes for spelling, typographical, grammatical, and other errors and make corrections, as needed.
 * 2) In some cases, clarifications in meanings may be needed. Make them.
 * 3) If descriptions of websites or other items on the page are needed, add them.
 * 4) Add links to tribes, reservations, agencies, schools, health facilities, etc. (See task instructions on adding links)

Add Links
Many of the pages on the Research Wiki need internal links added, inter-linking them to one another. As you contribute information to the various types of pages, watch for those needed links and add them.

Images
Images should be found, uploaded, and added to the tribal pages. Status Report

Brief Timelines
On each tribal page, we want to provide the user with a brief timeline of the events experienced by the tribe which affected the records kept, the jurisdictions involved in recording those events, and the locations of records today. This should be a synopsis of the events covered in the history, as noted below. Of particular interest would be dates of first non-Indian contact, treaties, when confined to a reservation, migrations, and the ratification of the tribe's constitution.

Brief Histories
On each tribal page, we want to provide the user with a brief history of the tribe, written in prose style (not outline format). This should be no longer than 3-5 paragraphs, covering only the important events of the tribe's history. The events that should be included are such things as the signing of treaties, the removal (movement) of a tribe to a new location, their placement on a reservation, establishment of tribal government, church missions established for the tribe, etc.

Reservations
This section of the tribal page should identify the name of the reservation(s) to which the tribe was assigned, the years they resided on that reservation, and its location.

Additional References to the History of the Tribe
This section is intended to lead Wiki users to other sources that would provide a more detailed history of the tribe. Some of the standard references which should be included here are Hodge's Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Swanton's Indians of North America, and others. If the tribe has a history section of their Official Tribal Website, a link to that page should be included.