Talk:Qahatika

I'm pretty sure these people are still around.
This just seems to describe the people at Kohadk. Frank Russell, in his book "The Pima Indians", describes a group called the 'Kwahadk' with their own form of pottery like Curtis does. Back in this era, the general consensus was to divide the O'odham into the Papago, the Pima, the Sobaipuri, and the Kwahadk, due to mostly superficial matters. The Papago weren't Pima because they were 'nomadic', which they used to lump the Hia-c-'ed O'odham with the Tohono O'odham; the Sobaipuri weren't Pima because they fought very strong and had a few different customs; and the Kwahadk weren't Pima because they had a different style of pottery. Nowadays, we classify these as the O'odham, and they are different because of where they live-- the Akimel O'odham live along the rivers, the Tohono O'odham live in the desert, etc. It seems to me that this is called an "extinct tribe" exclusively because nobody else calls them the Qahatika but Curtis, and nowadays nobody calls the "Kwahadk" a different tribe; they're just a branch of O'odham.

Unless you can bring up a book or article discussing how the Kohadk were different enough to be like the Sobaipuri when compared to the Pima, which does have its own Wikipedia page, and a book or article showing how the original inhabitants of Kohadk aren't currently inhabiting the village of Kohatk today and have merged with other Akimel/Tohono O'odham, like the Sobaipuri, this page really doesn't need to exist and is misleading.

Kopshi (talk) 05:48, 5 April 2021 (UTC)