User talk:NicoleMorningStar

Welcome to Wikipedia. Having visited the Yukon and some of the places this is spoken I appreciate what you wrote and found it really interesting. We have an existing page tahtbcovers the tooic at Tutchone language. Please imprve the existing page for it surely needs help. Legacypac (talk) 06:38, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

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Hi. User:Shalor (Wiki Ed) is the Wikipedia expert assigned to your course. Please get in touch with her for assistance. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:11, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

• Hi Nicole, here's what you had on Ian's page:

The Northern Tutchone are a First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living mainly in the central Yukon in Canada. The Northern Tutchone language, originally spoken by the Northern Tutchone people, is a variety of the Tutchone language, part of the Athabaskan language family. "Song Keeper" Jerry Alfred is leading a movement to keep the language alive through his music.

Northern Tutchone First Nations governments and communities include:

• First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun (Mayo, Yukon) (Nacho Nyak Dun - ″Big River People″, because they called the Stewart River Na Cho Nyak, meaning Big River, most northerly Northern Tutchone First Nation)
• Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation (Carmacks, Yukon) (Tagé Cho Hudän - ″Big River People″, because they called their keystone place the Yukon River Tage Cho, meaning Big River and Little Salmon after their keystone species the Chinook Salmon)
• Selkirk First Nation (Pelly Crossing, Yukon) (Hućha Hudän - ″Flatland People″, because of the landscape in Fort Selkirk, where the land is flat on both sides of the river)

White River First Nation (Beaver Creek, Yukon)

Oral History

The Native people of the Yukon languages conveyed religion, traditions and views of their world through stories that have been transmitted intergenerationally. Like all natural languages, Northern Tutchone was originally an oral language. Typographic documentations showcase the concept of language and landscape and how each is reliant on the other. The Northern Tutchone call their language “Dan Ki” which means “our way” and refers to all Northern Tutchone traditional knowledge and cultural practices. “Dooli Dan Ki” is the traditional values in which the Northern Tutchone are to conduct themselves in everyday life. These values and morals are found in the Dooli Dan Ki Traditional Story line, to which language revitalization efforts have focused on publishing the oral histories. Northern Tutchone story telling has been remodified for the modern First Nation by the production of oral history children’s books and animations, in English and Northern Tutchone. The ethonopoetics of the Northern Tutchone contribute to anthropological time lines of the Northern Tutchone’s history, linguistics and mythologies. Similar epistemology can be found in the Dene of the Northwest Territories narratives.

References Gertie, T. (1987). Ekeyi: Gyo Cho Chu My Country: Big Salmon River. Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada: Yukon Native Language Centre. Carr, G. L. (2004). Northern Tutchone (Athabascan) Poetics (Doctoral dissertation, ProQuest Information and Learning Company, Ann Arbor). Retrieved February 10, 2018, from http://wcm.ucalgary.ca/dflynn/files/dflynn/carr_n_tutchone_poetics.pdf Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation. (2016). Dooli Dan K'i Traditional Stories.

My main notes are this:

1. This section will need in-line sourcing to show which source backs up which claim. For example, the sentence "Like all natural languages, Norther Tutchone was originally an oral language" will definitely need a citation for both the claim of it being an oral language but also the claim about natural languages.
2. Always source a claim that states things in absolutes, such as "all horses eat carrots" or "every person loves the beach". In general these should be avoided because few things are absolute, however this is one of those cases where an absolute would most likely be OK. On a side note, if you ever have a situation where you have a claim like the examples I've given you should attribute them, such as "Doctor Smith states that all horses eat carrots", as that will help show that it's one person's claim rather than a blanket statement.

Overall this looks good. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:31, 19 March 2018 (UTC)