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Mayaimi -> Miami[edit]

The City of Miami was named after the Miami River, and I have added that statement, which may strike some as blindingly obvious, to History of Miami, with a citation (actually, the relevant citation was already there). There is a statement in Miami River (Florida) that implies, but does not explicitly state, that the river is named after the tribe. I intend to consult the source cited for that statement to see if I can clarify it. The last mention of the Mayaimis that I'm aware of was in 1745, while the river did not become known as the Miami River until during the Second Seminole War, that is, during the 1830s, a gap that may be hard to close. Names of geographical features were often displaced in Florida in the 18th and 19th centuries, Lake Mayaimi becoming known as Lake Mayaca (after the Mayaca Indians of the St. Johns River valley) before becoming Lake Okeechobee, while the original Boca Ratones was an inlet at the northern end of Biscayne Bay before moving to its present location. That makes the derivation of "Miami River" from "Lake Mayaimi" plausible speculation, but OR until a reliable source can be found. -- Donald Albury 19:21, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Move back to Mayaimi?[edit]

This article was moved without any discussion, and with no clean-up. I think that it would be better moved back to Mayaimi, where it had been for years. If it stays at Mayaimi tribe, then several other articles need to be fixed. I would ask that nothing be done to those other articles until we can discuss moving this article back. -- Donald Albury 00:39, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really see the point of the move. Kwamikagami seems to be trying to establish some consistency in articles on Indian groups and drawing a distinction between a "people" and a "tribe". In at least some of those cases it's wrong - he said some of the groups were "tribes" of the Timucua "people" when they weren't Timucuan at all. What would the distinction between tribe and people mean for the Mayaimi? Not to mention that there's no other article titled "Mayaimi" for this article to be confused with.Cúchullain ^t/c 01:36, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've already moved back some that he changed to "tribe" when the articles clearly identified the subjects as chiefdoms. He cited Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(people)#Ethnicities as justification for adding 'tribe' and 'people' to article names. I certainly don't read that guideline as requiring or even recommending that those terms be added to article names. -- Donald Albury 14:08, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The guideline would seem to argue against his use of "tribe" in cases like this one. I also don't read it as suggesting that either "tribe" or "people" should be use when there's no real disambiguation need. I say let's just move them all back, unless some individual article requires disambiguation.--Cúchullain ^t/c 14:24, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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There seems to be a circular reference between the origin of the name and the lake name. It says the tribe got its name from the lake, but that the word "Mayaimi" means "Big Lake" in the language of the Mayaimi. If the lake was already named with their tribe name, didn't they name the lake instead of deriving the tribe name from pre-named lake? Confused...

Last edited at 20:30, 11 March 2011 (UTC). Substituted at 23:32, 29 April 2016 (UTC)