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- From: speights@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Arlen Speights)
- Subject: Re: soc.culture.native newsgroup charter
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- References: <9301190301.AA25895@crux2.cit.cornell.edu> <1993Jan22.200348.9497@gnosys.svle.ma.us>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:17:06 GMT
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- gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us (Gary S. Trujillo) writes:
-
- >The following article was just relayed to alt.native, but missed the
- >news.groups and soc.culture.misc groups, so I'm reposting it here to
- >make sure that this important piece of scholarly perspective can enter
- >into our discussions leading up to the final resolution of the wording
-
- I think the article is particularly useful to our charter, but in the
- interest of keeping the charter under a gigabyte, we'd have to be
- slective about paraphrasing:
-
- > the existing descendents of the
- >peoples who inhabited the present territory of a country
- >at the time when persons of a different culture or ethnic origin
- >colonized that country, and
- >Who today live more in conformity with their particular social, economic
- >and cultural customs and traditions than with the institutions of the
- >country of which they now form a part.
-
- That last paragraph might be a bit exclusive, but I think it brings
- out a few important ideas as well.
- Here's the working draft of the part of the charter that I think could
- benefit from the above lines:
-
- newsgroup, "native" is considered roughly synonymous with "aboriginal" or
- "indigenous" -- all terms which underscore a population's having been the
- first to inhabit a particular region. This newsgroup is intended to be
-
- I think it would be better like this:
-
- ..."native is considered roughly synonymous with "aboriginal" or
- "indigenous" -- all terms that designate the existing descendents
- of the peoples who inhabited the present territory of a country
- at the time when persons of a different culture or ethnic origin
- colonized that country, and who today live more in conformity with
- their particular social, economic and cultural customs and traditions
- than with the institutions of the country of which they now form a part..."
-
-
- I think this would sufficiently narrow the focus of the group to
- reduce Unnescessary redundancy, while certainly leaving overlap
- where it's pertinent to both groups, such as the s.c.wherever groups.
- IMHO, of course. It also resolves some vagueness that I feel is
- contained in the "first to inhabit a region;" indigenous peoples
- often have and do migrate in some cases, it's the contact with the
- Different culture that creates most of the issues we've seen on
- alt.native and NativeNet.
-
- Thoughts?
-
- Arlen
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