Talk:List of Indian reserves in Canada by population

associated FNs and towns/places

the obscurity of IR names in many cases predicates the need to include which First Nation is associated with which reserve, and where they are; I'll table-ize this in a little while but for now will just ad FNs and locations without further formatting.....Skookum1 (talk)

Numbers skewed by non-native residents

If this list is supposed to reflect the comparative size of native reserve communities, it's got some issues, and those issues lead me again towards the big job of table-izing it. Tsinstikeptum 9 and its partner, and Capilano 5 and the Burrard Reserve and Pencticton 1 and Osoyoos 1 (if it's on there), and I think Tzeachten, include large numbers of non-native residents on housing developments (or in Osoyoos' case on vinyards). For now I'll go over the census figures and inidcate how many non-natives are resident in each case; it may be that in other provinces that there are few/no non-nati9ve residents on reserves; whereas in BC it's very common due to enterprise on the part of band managers/councils (e.g. the no-longer Attorney General of British Columbia, Wally Oppal, lives in Tsatsu Shores, a condo development on the Tsawwassen Indian Reserve. So if this list was supposed to be equivalent to a list of First Nations populations across the country, it just doesn't work; I know some of yo9u regard the term "Indian reserve" [sic and the attached First Nation band/people as interchangeable concepts; in BC they are not....Skookum1 (talk) 13:57, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

So table will have non-native, on-reserve and off-resrve populations; and the idda of this table is complicated by the fact that bands in BC have m ultiple reserves - e.g. the Westbank First Nation has the two Tsinstikeptums which are jointly known as the Westbank Indian Ressrve i.e. as one place, though two parcels of land. Similarly I know in the case of teh Seton Lake First Nation that their community is scattered across several adjoining reserves, so a by-official-reserve-name they have low populations; combined they do not.; likewise with other FNs in that region and elsewhere in BC; counting by single reserve and not combined-reserves is mmisleading but I suppose any attempt to tidy that up is original research, so it is what it is....Skookum1 (talk) 14:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Here's an example; this is a quoted bit from the West Kelowna page:

Approximately 6,000 non-band members and 500 First Nation Westbank band members live on the reserves.

Skookum1 (talk) 14:07, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

yes your right this page needs some real work...from what i can see its very dated ..from 2002 i belive.

Buzzzsherman (talk) 17:37, 29 September 2009 (UTC)