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Check if a proposed pkg name is an Indigenous tribe name
Using an Indigenous tribe's names for software packages is widely considered to be an inappropriate and offensive use of those names, e.g. https://twitter.com/SavvyOlogy/status/1138478892212150272
In the spirit of the 'bad words' checking that this pkg does, I wonder if this pkg could be a good place to have a checker that looks to see if a proposed pkg name is a tribe's name and alert the developer to avoid it?
Perhaps this could be a good list to check names with: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2018-15679 and it's available in XML, but would still need a little tidying to be useful here.
Several of my anthropologist colleagues have recommended this list (also available in JSON, XML and CSV): https://www.bia.gov/tribal-leaders-directory
Thanks, I think we can do this easily is there is a good source of tribe names available.