Category talk:American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent

This category was nominated for deletion on 1 June 2023. The result of the discussion was keep.

This category was nominated for merging on 23 May 2019. The result of the discussion was split between Category:American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent and Category:American people of Native American descent.

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Discussion Incoherent burbling[edit]

why is this a category? is this offensive.. how do you know they're lying why make a category based on lying? making a category of ACTUAL Native people? sure, seems legit I guess.. a little sketchy? why does Wikipedia literally categorize people on race anyway. it's 2020. race and gender don't matter. did you DNA test all these people.. why not other self-identity category ones.. who people who self identify as gender fluid but gotcha.. they aren't. got 'em. doesn't exsist... NOT. what does this mean. wtfwtf 107.190.10.79 (talk) 00:36, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In case you did not realise that the words "the discussion" in the template above link to a discussion about this category, it was here: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_23#Category:American_people_who_self-identify_as_being_of_Native_American_descent. – Fayenatic London 13:24, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Since misunderstandings about this category abound, this category is for people who claim to have Native American ancestry but no further reliable, published secondary sources confirm that person has the ancestry that they claim (for example, a tribal newspaper mentioning the individual as descending from the tribe). "Native American" is typically defined in Wikipedia as being an Indigenous person from the continental United States (sometimes Native Hawaiians and other US Pacific Islanders are included). Responding to the IP's misunderstanding, "Native American" is not a race or ethnicity. Inclusion in this category is not a statement that the individual has no Native American ancestry; it is a statement that verifiable independent evidence of this ancestry has not been found and published on Wikipedia. Yuchitown (talk) 15:43, 11 June 2023 (UTC)Yuchitown[reply]

Shorter title[edit]

Category:American people of self-identified Native American descent would be a more precise title, I think. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 10:59, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]