Talk:Kachina

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Does Kachina need to be capitalized? (Few English nouns do.)Vicki Rosenzweig

I've seen it both ways, but I don't know for sure. Tokerboy

No, kachina and katsina do not need to be capitalized. Only the proper names of each being (e.g., Mongwa, Sohu, or Qoqole) need to be. FYI katsina is becoming the accepted spelling, as it is closer to the Hopi pronunciation.

[edit] Sourcing and references

...would be useful. There is an inherent problem in sourcing and reliability about Hopi and other Puebloan societies, who have oral histories, protect religious information as secrets, regard scholarship as irrelevant, intrusive, or even culturally exploitive, etc. There's also a lot of nonsense out there, even from published sources. Lacking any real information people opine. Maybe that means we have to keep these articles very brief and limit it to simple, objective info. That cautious approach would probably please both the article subjects and the Wikipedia people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikidemo (talk • contribs) 02:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

And God forbid we read any of the reams and reams of literature the University of Arizona and other universities in the southwest have published about the topic, of course--even the Hopi aren't all that closed-mouthed.

How is it possible that there's more information about Candomble on Wikipedia than there is about almost any Native American religion? Even the Navajo get severely short shrift, and they're the biggest Native nation in the U.S. And their religion's been copiously documented, too--there's no excuse for all this stuff not to be up here. Nagakura shin8 (talk) 18:45, 9 April 2008 (UTC)