Talk:Great Peacemaker

Note: The following has been done as of Oct 24, 2005 03:39:30 GMT

Saying The Great Peacemaker's actual name outside of prayer is considered disrespectful by many Haudenosaunee people. The preferred nomenclature is "The Great Peacemaker". (This is similar to the Jewish convention of not saying the name of God, or spelling it G-d).

This page and the page for Hiawatha are both literred with this name - this is understandable, because much of the European written literature on The Great Peacemaker ignores this issue of cultural sensitivity.

I'd propose that the proper way to address this issue is to have this page's content copied to a new page called "The Great Peacemaker", and replace all instances of the name with "The Great Peacemaker" (the latter will be doe on Hiawatha as well). If there are no objections, I will do this in a few days.

• I object strongly to this. This is an encyclopedia, and we call things by their actual names. We don't call the vagina article hoo-hoo-dilly just because some people are offended. Note for example that in the articles dealing with the Jewish god, the name IS rendered. The Manual of Style clearly indicates that the most common name for a subject should be used for the article title, and I am reverting the page move accordingly. Fawcett5 20:10, 6 November 2005 (UTC)