Talk:Huastec people

Infobox

Given that the current article is as much about the Huastecan people as the Huastec language, it doesn't seem quite appropriate to add this language infobox, but I'm including it here for future use when someone is able to disentangle the two subjects. @alex 06:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Huastec
Tenek
Native to	Mexico
Region	San Luis Potosí, Veracruz
Native speakers	approx. 66,000
Language family	Mayan Huastecan Huastec
Language codes
ISO 639-2	myn
ISO 639-3	Variously: hva – San Luís Potosí hus – Veracruz hsf – Southeastern

The Huastec site of Tamtoc is in the news, with the discovery of a monolith bearing a lunar calendar: [1]. Someone more knowledgable than I should work it into the article. --Wetman 09:00, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Splitting

I propose a splitting of this article into Huastec people and Wastek language. The spelling of mayan language names it has been decided to change in accordance with the ALMG orthographies (see discussin on Talk:Mayan languages), and it is standard practice to have separate articles on ethnic groups and their language. Maunus 19:57, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed Maunus, at the very least we need separate articles for the people and the language; and more than likely we should in general also separate out articles on the historical culture and the contemporary indigenous people, too. Also agree that the language article at least should be at Wastek language.--cjllw | TALK 00:22, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Pre-Columbian Huastec

I note that the disambiguation page Huastec and some other pages have links to a non-existant "Huastec civilization" article. As this "Huastec people" article has some info on the pre-Columbian Huastec, I have made the "civilization" article a redirect to here for the time being, at least until we spin-off or creating a fresh article specifically on the civilization. -- Infrogmation 02:55, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

"...required to bond clothing"?

Near the end of the first paragraph, it states "With their conversion to the Roman Catholic faith, they were required to bond clothing." I have no idea what "to bond clothing" means, and I doubt I'm alone. Can anyone explain, and perhaps rewrite that sentence in layman's terms? Occam's Shaver (talk) 08:15, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Merger Proposal

I propose to merge this page with Nahuas of La Huasteca. As far as I can tell, the two are describing the same ethnicity, but this page focuses on the history of the Huastec's within the Aztec empire whereas Nahuas of La Huasteca focuses on the ethnography of modern Huastecs. As it stands, the first two paragraphs of Huastec people are not representative of the article content, and Nahuas is an WP:Orphan. The other article is long as it is, but not to the point where a merger is unviable. An alternative would be to leave them separate, but rename the pages to match (i.e., this would become "History of the Huastecs" and Nahuas would become "Ethnography of the Huastecs"). Thoughts? 2601:240:C400:D60:B42D:9756:37F4:4DE8 (talk) 22:25, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

• Support: I think you can be bold and do it yourself considering the lack of opposition :) DrStrauss talk 11:51, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
• Strongly Oppose: The Nahuatl/Nahua people and the Huastec/Wastek/Teenek people are two different ethnic/linguistic groups which live in the Huasteca region. Although there are many similarities between these cultures, they are definitely not the same ethnicity, and shouldn't be merged with each other. I do recognize the problem of an orphan page, and some cleanup problems on both pages. Perhaps we should add links to relevant articles so Nahuas of La Huasteca wouldn't be an orphan. Krubo (talk) 05:59, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
• oppose. The proposal is a non-starter, since these are not the same people. Huastecs are a Maya speaking people who also live in the Huasteca region - along with Nahuas, otomies, and tepehuas - who are all different.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 12:24, 10 February 2019 (UTC)