Ta'c méeywi, /r/IndianCountry! (Good morning)

First off, my sincerest apologies about this recognition post being two months late. Right after NAHM, we hit our unofficial "sabbatical" a little early and got wrapped up in our non-Reddit projects. However, in this post, the moderators would like to share with the rest of you some of the success and stats from the month of November, which was Native American Heritage Month (NAHM).

We would like to extend our appreciation and gratitude to all those who participated in the events that were held on /r/IndianCountry.

Community Discussions

In the weeks before November 1st, much effort was put into the organizing of the weekly community discussions. Here are the topics that were selected, done so with community input, and headed up by the moderators this year:

Thank you to /u/Opechan for taking the lead on three of those discussions and a big thank you to all who contributed, whether it was by upvote, comment, or even just reading it. We wanted to highlight issues that were relevant to the community and to Indian Country as a whole, which I think these all were and are.

Of special note, I want to say that the items discussed in the second community discussion regarding our FAQ will be addressed here shortly.

AMAs

Another part of NAHM were the several AMAs that were hosted. We would like to thank all of those who worked with the mod team to contact AMA participants and get things arranged so they could join the discussions here.

A big thank you to all the participants as well for taking time out of their busy lives to come to our community and answer some questions! Here is a list:

Subreddit Appearance, Banners, and Details

We would also like to thank /u/snorecalypse again for the amazing time and effort they've invested into the design of /r/IndianCountry and using their talents to showcase what our subreddit is all about. This includes during NAHM and our current rotating banner for protecting Bears Eears National Monument, a big deal right now for Indian Country.

All Users and Contributors

Without all of you, the community, nothing would be possible. Thank you very much for your continued subscription to our subreddit and the posts/comments you provide. Even those who just lurk. We appreciate you taking the time to be aware of Native issues.

Shoutout to AskHistorians!

Over on /r/AskHistorians, the major sub we've been partnering with since the first Native American Heritage Month, they honored us by using a design made by /u/snorecalypse in place of their Reddit Snoo in the upper left corner of the sub and making mention of both NAHM and our events. We are certainly grateful for their willingness to include us in their activities!

Subreddit Stats and Accomplishments for the Month

We saw some amazing stats with regards to visitation to /r/IndianCountry in November! We were also a trending subreddit for 24 hours, which saw massive traffic come our way. Here are some stats from the previous years to compare with what we hit this time around along with our 2017 numbers.

November 2017 Uniques/Pageviews

November 2016 Uniques/Pageviews

November 2015 Uniques/Pageviews

From 2016 to 2017, the amount of unique visitor views jumped an astounding 67.81% and our regular pageviews jumped an even higher 86.78%! A large part of that is because of the trending status, but I also like to think it was a lot of the crossposting that was done, a good chuck of that being from /u/Pulelehua, who we are grateful for as well.

Subscribers

Hello to many of our new subscribers as well!! Over the course of November, we saw an increase of 1,632 new subscribers. It is amazing to see how our humble community grew from just a couple hundred in a few months to now nearly 10,000 subscribers.

So once again, we'd like to thank all of those who participated and viewed. And welcome to any new subscribers as well! Hopefully you'll enjoy your stay at /r/IndianCountry. If I forgot to mention anyone, I sincerely apologize and will make an edit to give you the recognition you deserve.

Ta'c léehyn. (Good day)