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I've enjoyed seeing the edits this page is going through over the past weeks, with many improvements from the original. I do want to discuss adding back in some of the contextual information about Fahlstrom's life. One of the difficulties with Bonga is the lack of direct information about her day-to-day life and contributions. Without additional context, these historical biases make it difficult to present much more than a bare outline of her life. While I agree with much of the stream-lining and reorg that has been occurring, I still think a few points should get mentioned in her article, even if briefly.
Areas I think help readers in understanding Bonga's life include:
1. Marriages between fur traders and Native American women and the interconnections between the tribes and European/White culture.
2. How Native women contributed economically and socially through their skills and connections.
3. The Fahlstroms lived for a time near Coldwater Spring. I think it deserves a mention that the site was/is sacred to the Dakota, then taken over by the U.S. army. The Fahlstroms lived here for a time before being forced to leave. Access to this site it still contested today.
4. Her mixed-race heritage and what it might have meant when living near enslaved people and between Native American and White cultures (as of now, this topic is still covered in the article).
I'm interested to hear any other editors take on this, as I haven't edited that many historical figures before. My sense of Bonga is that she lived quite an interesting life, and I hope this page can reflect that.
Be4waugh (
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15:08, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
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I've enjoyed seeing the edits this page is going through over the past weeks, with many improvements from the original. I do want to discuss adding back in some of the contextual information about Fahlstrom's life. One of the difficulties with Bonga is the lack of direct information about her day-to-day life and contributions. Without additional context, these historical biases make it difficult to present much more than a bare outline of her life. While I agree with much of the stream-lining and reorg that has been occurring, I still think a few points should get mentioned in her article, even if briefly.
Areas I think help readers in understanding Bonga's life include:
1. Marriages between fur traders and Native American women and the interconnections between the tribes and European/White culture.
2. How Native women contributed economically and socially through their skills and connections.
3. The Fahlstroms lived for a time near Coldwater Spring. I think it deserves a mention that the site was/is sacred to the Dakota, then taken over by the U.S. army. The Fahlstroms lived here for a time before being forced to leave. Access to this site it still contested today.
4. Her mixed-race heritage and what it might have meant when living near enslaved people and between Native American and White cultures (as of now, this topic is still covered in the article).
I'm interested to hear any other editors take on this, as I haven't edited that many historical figures before. My sense of Bonga is that she lived quite an interesting life, and I hope this page can reflect that.
Be4waugh (
talk)
15:08, 4 January 2022 (UTC)