Talk:Nez Perce

Phonetic Pronounciation

It would be nice to have a phonetic spelling of the name. Is it correct to say it as Nee Paw? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.10.127.58 (talk) 14:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC) (sign attached by guninvalid (talk) 08:15, 21 March 2026 (UTC))

This self-designation is a common practice of aboriginal peoples the world over?

The Nez Perce's name for themselves is Ni-Mii-Puu (pronounced nee-mee-poo), which means simply "the People." This self-designation is a common practice of aboriginal peoples the world over.

This statement evidences lack of perspective In fact, I think the statement shows ethnocentricity, or lack of perspective, when stating that aboriginal peoples call themselves simply "The People."

Other languages (which are not dubbed aboriginal) have a word meaning something like people. I do not think the statement in bold is appropriate because in languages that are not "aboriginal," you still can notice the use of words such as "Human beings," "Humankind," etc, to refer to People. I call myself people or human in my own language (In Spanish, you say "Persona, Gente, Humano, Ser Humano, etc"), and when speaking in English, I would like to be consider a "person". The statement above could apply in my case, although I do not belong to a so-called aboriginal people.

I hope we can come up with a better solution, or with information that could be more helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.77.195.21 (talk) 22:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC) (sign attached by guninvalid (talk) 08:15, 21 March 2026 (UTC))

Unsourced content added - June 2025

151.252.219.23: Can you please tell me where you've got the native name "Emilijan" from? This is to reach consequences to stop from me violating 3RR unless this is vandalism. PEPSI697 (💬) (📝) 07:03, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

lang tags and non-English words

There's currently a tag at the top of the article stating that the language of this article's non-English content should be specified. I made a pass through the article, tagging many words with the language code nez, and a couple with fr. I removed quotation marks throughout (e.g., "qeemu" is now qeemu). There were several words in the languages of neighbouring peoples; I haven't made an effort to track down the language codes for these. I generally didn't touch things related to proper nouns.

We're probably close to being able to remove the "This article should specify the language of its non-English content" message from the top of the article. I hope someone can check my work, add appropriate tags to the last few non-English words, and remove the {{cleanup lang|date=November 2025|iso=nez}} from the multipleissues tag. Jacobdgm (talk) 13:29, 13 June 2026 (UTC)