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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13777) Patch: Another revised Sioux nation
From: "Daniel Markstedt" <markstedt@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:02:32 -0700
Reply-to: bugs@xxxxxxxxxxx

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13777 >

> Ehm, that nation file refer to the historic nation of the Sioux. And 
> this
> gives more sense to me than to refer to the modern reservations.

True. It's no ideal solution.

> The old comment suggests to use the names of the individual tribes 
> that made
> up the Sioux nation. Why not do this? Are these names not available? 
> Names
> like 'Red Shirt' are funny but doesn't fit very much to my idea of the
> Sioux.. I agree that battle names aren't good either, though.
>
> Christian
>

Using tribe names as cities was my previous patch (ticket #13665). The 
idea was rejected at that time though.

I used this article on Wikipedia as reference: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota

Daniel





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