Talk:Tunica-Biloxi

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Emphasize modern tribe[edit]

In order to keep the articles straight, I think this should focus on the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe and its "20th c. to present" history, rather than repeating all the history that was in the History of Tunica people article. Keep the lengthy and general historical description in that other article , but rename/move it to "Tunica (people)". That type of treatment is what was done for Cherokee and some others.--Parkwells (talk) 00:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Name[edit]

I changed the name of the tribe in the article to "Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana", and the name of the reservation to "Tunica-Biloxi Reservation" with this edit, stating "Name of tribe and reservation per primary and other RS". I did this because the tribe's own website, their flag, other related primary sources ([1][2]), and other recent reliable sources (The Smithsonian, State of LA SR 109, One Feather obit, Hoover's corp profile, Indianz.com, Avoyelles local news) use that name.

With this edit, Uyvsdi reverted me, stating "please see List of federally recognized tribes, the name of the tribe is: Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe". The source of that article is the BIA's publication of "Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs" in the Federal Register.

The article itself, inexplicably, is named Tunica-Biloxi.

There seems to be no doubt that the three names refer to the same people and tribe. Why should the BIA (an agency with an, at best, spotty history with regard to human rights) exonym for a particular people over-rule their own naming preference (as reported by other reliable sources)? I'll bet that an audit of the BIA list against the WP list and articles will show many more discrepancies, with similar evidence against use of the BIA names. I don't mind mentioning the BIA name in the article for reference, but to ignore a people's own right to choose the name by which they should be called seems wrong. It took the tribe until 1981 to gain recognition from the BIA – it doesn't surprise me at all that, when they chose to change their name at some time since then (or the BIA just got it wrong), the tribe wouldn't "rock the boat" by trying to get it changed at the BIA.

Comments? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 17:35, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The BIA doesn't choose tribes' names for them; the tribe chooses its own name. As I pointed out in my edit, the tribe was previously named the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana. They have very recently changed their own name, which they have a right to do, to Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe. Since the name change is recent, most web hits will have the previous name. Many tribes are removing states' names from their tribal names, to remove any implication that the state has sovereignty over the tribe. -Uyvsdi (talk) 16:54, 3 August 2013 (UTC)Uyvsdi[reply]

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