Talk:Illinois Confederation

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To my vast amazement (I knew of them as the "Illinois confederation", and had never heard of Illiniwek), they do seem to be best known at this name. Google gives:

• Illiniwek NOT "Chief Illiniwek" NOT University - 1,370
• "Illini confederacy" - 65
• "Illinois confederacy" - 212
• "Illini confederation" - 175
• "Illinois confederation" NOT labour - 164

(The NOT's in the search above were an attempt to filter out references to the mascot, although I doubt I got them all, or things that were named after him.)

So it's properly named where it is (although I will check that all logical redirects exist, to prevent creation of duplicate articles by other ignorami such as me! Noel (talk) 14:37, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

History

I got here from the page on the state of Illinois, which identifies the name as coming from the Algonquian "tribe of superior men." Here, someone says that's not true, but doesn't give a source. Looking into it, I see that while the initial claim goes all the way back to Marquette (outdated source, perhaps?), the claim that "Illiniwek" is an Ojibwa word is based on recent research (see here: http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/il_id.html). This is according to the Illinois State Museum Society. In any case, I'm inclined to include both etymologies on both pages, but since this is not my area of expertise, I thought I should open it up for discussion. L Glidewell 19:16, 15 December 2006 (UTC)L_Glidewell

The Ojibwa are an "Algonquian" people in the sense of speaking of language of the Algonquian language family, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know which Indians were Marquette's guides during his exploration into Illinois country, but I think he got most or all of his placenames and peoplenames from his guides. They were probably "Algonquian" and I would think Ojibwa, although I'm not sure. I guess my point is that Ojibwa is a subclass of Algonquian. On the other hand, even if Marquette was the first European in Illinois Country, it seems unlikely the French hadn't heard of the Illiniwek through other Indians much earlier. I have a book that might have some info on this, I'll check when I am home again. Pfly 06:59, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Right, Algonquian's a family. Sorry for the confusing statement. The conflict as I understand it is that it was once believed by many that "Illiniwek" was a transliteration of an Illinois-language word for "superior men." The more recent research (according to the link I cited above) suggests that "Illiniwek" is actually derived from an Ojibwa-language word meaning "those who talk in a normal manner." In other words, the term was borrowed by or applied to the Illinois, but did not originate in their language. Just wanted to clarify. L Glidewell 18:05, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

The link to the Catholic Encyclopedia,
"Illinois Indians". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
appears to be broken. I would just remove it, but I just got a Wikipedia account and I'm a bit apprehensive about wielding such power at this point. "adding and correcting links" is considered a minor edit. Is removing a broken link also a minor edit? Astonzia (talk) 19:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Change Title to "Illinois Confederation"

Based on the historical record, the correct title for this article should be "Illinois Confederation." The number of citations in Google is hardly evidence that a particular term is correct. (This is a basic tenet of research.) It only means that the term was used—correctly or otherwise—a particular number of times.

It is possible to cite other wildly incorrect terms that were picked up—often from Wikipedia!—and blindly repeated in other documents and published on the World Wide Web. "Illiniwek" falls into this category; the term is not so widespread in printed sources, particularly those that predate the Internet.

PlaysInPeoria (talk) 21:54, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Tribal Names

Many well-known tribal names were derived from the often-derogatory names used by neighboring tribes. "Sioux" is a classic example of this phenomenon. The individual tribes in the Illinois Confederation (Peoria, etc.) had names for themselves.

Is there evidence that the individual tribes actually considered themselves as part of a confederation? To some extent, the "confederation," as known today, was defined by dialect. For example, the Illinois and the Miami essentially spoke different dialects of the same language. The sound for "r" in Illinois was replaced by the sound for "l" in Miami.

PlaysInPeoria (talk) 22:06, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

My linguistic work on the names of the Illinois Indians has been grossly misrepresented here. I've fixed it.Djcosta (talk) 02:13, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

How many tribes?

The lead paragraph says “The Illinois Confederation […] were a group of twelve to thirteen Native American tribes […].” then proceeds to name seventeen of them. So how many were there, and which ones? — Tonymec (talk) 21:49, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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this is an extremely biased and poorly fleshed out page reflecting only the similarly biased European Settler point of view, and treats too lightly of the genocide of first nations

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: rejected by Amkgp (talk) 06:13, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that the Illinois Confederation, although composed of 12–13 tribes, was not by textbook definition an actual confederation?
  • ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Created/expanded by Gloriasiyoungkoo (talk). Self-nominated at 00:38, 2 November 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing: - Non-reliable sources are used such as https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ http://www.tolatsga.org/ill.html and http://chicagocityofbigshoulders.blogspot.com/ There is a serious failed verification issue. I checked just one paragraph starting with "French missionaries and explorers" and found that almost none of it was supported by the cited source. You also need to cite a source at the end of each paragraph as a minimum DYK requirement
• Neutral: - Not evaluated
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - There is some plagiarism in the article according to Earwig[1] but it might also be backwards copy?

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• Interesting: - Needs a more engaging hook

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Overall: (t · c) buidhe 10:34, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

• buidhe, I'm wondering why you say this is not expanded sufficiently. In the edit immediately prior to the day of expansion, October 25, the article had 3786 prose characters, which would require a minimum post-expansion length of 18,930, while the current length is 19,592, clearly over that length. The article is less than an hour late to meet the seven-day requirement, which I think is certainly allowable given that this is a first-time nomination by a new Wikipedian who has expanded the article as part of an online WikiEd course and may not be used to our pegging things to UTC. Pinging Ian (Wiki Ed), in the hopes that he can work with the nominator; buidhe, perhaps you can do a more complete review so we know where this stands and what the nominator has to work with. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:56, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

• I would certainly be willing to waive that for a first-time editor, and I removed the POV tag since there doesn't seem to be an ongoing dispute with the current version of the article. However, the sourcing issues with this article are very serious. (t · c) buidhe 02:28, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

• @BlueMoonset and Buidhe: I emailed the instructor and asked them to nudge the student, who may not have seen the message on their talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:51, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

• BlueMoonset, Buidhe re-pinging, because I messed up the last edit. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:53, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

• Note that another editor has removed a section on language and with it 1002 prose characters, bringing the article down to 18,590 prose characters, which is 340 prose characters short of a 5x expansion. In addition, there is now a "failed verification" template on top of the sourcing issues buidhe noted. Ian (Wiki Ed), it's been over two weeks without the issues being addressed, so the nudge doesn't seem to have worked. How long do you think we should give before closing out this nomination, assuming we haven't passed that point already? BlueMoonset (talk) 08:01, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

• @BlueMoonset: It's probably best to close it at this point. Thanks for your willingness to work with these students. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:08, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

• Closing per above; nominator has still not responded and is unlikely to. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

• buidhe, it looks like the author got the length back above 5x, and has added sourcing, including regarding the "failed verification" one. Can you please check to see whether the sourcing issues remain? If so, by all means restore the "X" icon; if not, or if they're very close to being resolved, would you mind continuing the review? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:29, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

• While there have definitely been considerable improvements, some of the article still relies on random websites that don't look reliable: http://rfester.tripod.com/ http://chicagocityofbigshoulders.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-illinois-confederation-illini.html https://www.legendsofamerica.com/illinois-tribe/#:~:text=Today,%20many%20descendants%20of%20the,Peoria%20Tribe%20of%20Miami,%20Oklahoma. http://www.native-languages.org/miami-illinois.htm etc. (t · c) buidhe 07:45, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

• Pinging Ian (Wiki Ed) again, since the editor did address some issues, though there are still sourcing concerns. Should we leave it open for further improvement, or do you still believe that it's best to close the nomination? Thanks for returning to let us know. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:16, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Adding: this will need another hook as well. If this continues, can you suggest one? Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:14, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

•  Note: Nominator is a WikiEd student editor for the Fall 2020 term at Vanderbilt University. (course link) The course ends on December 12, 2020. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 09:52, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

• There has been no attempt to address the sourcing concerns, no new hook has been proposed, and the class has ended. Marking again for closure. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:57, 13 December 2020 (UTC)