1. Native American Religion - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Traditional Native American religions exhibit a great deal of diversity, largely due to the relative isolation of the different tribes that were spread out across the entire breadth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_religions

Native American religion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Native American religions Jump to: navigation search Traditional Native American religions exhibit a great deal of diversity, largely due to the relative isolation of the different tribes that were spread out across the entire breadth of the North American continent for thousands of years, allowing for the evolution of different beliefs and practices between tribes. Native American religion is closely connected to the land in which Native Americans dwell and the supernatural . While there are many different Native American religious practices, most address the following areas of "supernatural concern": an omnipresent, invisible "universal force", "taboo", pertaining to the "three 'life crises' of birth, puberty, and death", "spirits", "visions", the " shaman " and "communal ceremony". Native American spirituality is often characterized by pantheism , a strong emphasis on the importance of personal spirituality and its interconnectivity with one's own daily life, and a deep connection between the natural and spiritual 'worlds'. Most adherents to traditional American Indian ways do not see their spiritual beliefs and practices as a "religion"; rather, they see their whole culture and social structure as infused with 'spirituality' - an integral part of their lives and culture.

2. Answers.com - Are Native American Religions Best Described As Monotheistic Polyt The natives of North America were not a single bloc of spiritual belief. Religions of the first nations peoples before the European conquest range from the monotheistic http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_Native_American_religions_best_described_as_monoth

3. Native American Religions Traditional Native American religions exhibit a great deal of diversity, largely due to the relative isolation of the different tribes that were spread out http://pediaview.com/openpedia/Native_American_religions

Native American religions Traditional Native American religions exhibit a great deal of diversity, largely due to the relative isolation of the different tribes that were spread out across the entire breadth of the North American continent for thousands of years, allowing for the evolution of different beliefs and practices between tribes. Native American religion is closely connected to the land in which Native Americans dwell and the supernatural . While there are many different Native American religious practices, most address the following areas of "supernatural concern": an omnipresent, invisible "universal force", "taboo", pertaining to the "three 'life crises' of birth, puberty, and death", "spirits", "visions", the " shaman " and "communal ceremony". Native American spirituality is often characterized by pantheism , a strong emphasis on the importance of personal spirituality and its interconnectivity with one's own daily life, and a deep connection between the natural and spiritual 'worlds'. Most adherents to traditional American Indian ways do not see their spiritual beliefs and practices as a "religion"; rather, they see their whole culture and social structure as infused with 'spirituality' - an integral part of their lives and culture.

4. Films For The Humanities And Sciences - Native American Religions In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about Native American religions with Suzan Shown Harjo, executive director of The Morning Star Institute in Washington, D.C http://ffh.films.com/id/15478/Native_American_Religions.htm

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6. Summary Of Native American Religions School paper about the religion of the Iroquois Nation, Dakota (Sioux) and Apache tribes. http://are.as.wvu.edu/ruvolo.htm

A Summary of Native American Religions by David Ruvolo The history of American religions is dominated by the presence of Christianity brought to the New World by European settlers. Columbus's discovery in 1492 marked the beginning of a massive "white" invasion that would consume the entire continent of North America over the next four centuries. Although Christianity manifested itself in countless denominations, it was, nevertheless, the umbrella under which most Europeans in America gathered. It served as common ground on which white settlers could stand together in the struggle for survival in the wilderness of the New World. Whatever differences there were between denominations were insignificant when compared to the differences between the white European Christianity and their counterparts on the continent, the resident Native Americans. This fact, along with the desire and need for land, turned Native Americans into a convenient enemy for most groups of European settlers. In essence, time had run out for the indigenous race that populated the continent of North America. Like the Israelites of the sixth century B.C.E., Native Americans were faced with an enemy that was more advanced. Ironically, the invading whites are the religious descendants of those same Israelites who were conquered by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E.. Armed with technologically advanced weapons, diseases which were foreign to the continent, and a concept known as Manifest Destiny, European settlers began an assault on the North American Continent the result of which was nothing short of genocide. Within four hundred years of their first contact, the white man had succeeded in stripping Native American civilizations of virtually all of their land and had nearly wiped their cultures from the face of the earth.

7. Seeking Native American Spirituality And Traditional Religion: Read This First! A word to the wise for nonIndians in search of Native American religions and spirituality. Explains the differences between traditional American Indian belief and European http://www.native-languages.org/religion.htm

Native American Indian languages Native culture What's new on our site today! Seeking Native American Spirituality: Read This First! Judging from the email I get, there are a lot of people out there trying to learn about traditional Native American religion and spirituality these days. Many of them are trying to do this on the Internet. Now, there is a lot of garbage and misinformation on the Internet no matter what subject you're talking about, but American Indian religion and spirituality has got to have the worst signal-noise ratio of any of them. The 'information' out there about American Indian religions ranges from inaccurate school projects by seven-year-olds, to deeply biased generalizations about the 'heathens' written 300 years ago, to hucksters pretending to be Native American shamans to scam money off of people, to useful and interesting information about actual American Indian religious traditions past and present. Sorting through these sites can be a nightmare. I wish you a lot of luck with it. Before you start, let me give you a few words of experience. There are two reasons to be looking for information on Native American religions. The first, and easier to address, is educational. Either because you're a student who's been assigned to or just out of intellectual and cultural curiosity, you would like to learn more about how American Indians, or a particular tribe of American Indians, view the world. If that's you, then your main problem is going to be identifying the authentic and trustworthy sources. Indians are happy to talk about their beliefs and spiritual practices, both historically and in the modern day. Unfortunately, so are plenty of ill-informed non-Indians (or people of Indian descent) who think they know a lot more than they do. And so are those unscrupulous souls willing to pretend they're something they're not in hopes of making a buck or getting a little attention. My best recommendation is to get a

8. Native American Spirituality A general overview with quotes, essays, and links. http://www.religioustolerance.org/nataspir.htm

About this site About us Our beliefs Your first visit? Contact us ... Vital notes World religions BUDDHISM CHRISTIANITY Who is a Christian? Shared beliefs ... Comparing religions Non-theistic... Atheism Agnosticism Humanism Other About all religions Main topics Basic info. Gods/Goddesses Handling change ... More info. Spiritual/ethics Spirituality Morality/ethics Absolute truth Peace/conflict Attaining peace Relig. tolerance Relig. freedom Relig. hatred ... Relig. violence "Hot" topics Very hot topics 10 command. Abortion Assisted suicide ... Other topics Laws and news Religious laws Religious news Religions of the world Menu Native American Spirituality Sponsored link. document.write(''); Many followers of Native American spirituality, do not regard their spiritual beliefs and practices as a "religion" in the way in which many Christians do. Their beliefs and practices form a integral and seamless part of their very being. Estimates of the numbers of Native North Americans at the time of the European arrival/invasion in what is now the United States and Canada vary between 1.2 to 12 million. By the end of the 19th century, the number of Native Americans had been reduced to 250,000, mainly through imported diseases, dislocation, slavery, mass murder and genocide Many of the survivors converted to Christianity. A resurgence of Aboriginal faith is currently underway.

9. Native American Religion In Early America, Divining America, TeacherServe®, Nati Historical essays aimed at educators, with pictures and links. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm

CONTACT US SITE GUIDE SEARCH Divining America 19th Century 20th Century Native American Religion in Early America The Legacy of Puritanism Witchcraft in Salem Village The First Great Awakening Religious Pluralism in the Middle Colonies Church and State in British North America The Separation of Church and State from the American Revolution to the Early Republic The Church of England in Early America Religion, Women, Divining America is made possible by grants from the Lilly Endowment and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Divining America Advisors and Staff Native American Religion in Early America Christine Leigh Heyrman Department of History, University of Delaware Third and finally, the members of most tribes believed in the immortality of the human soul and an afterlife, the main feature of which was the abundance of every good thing that made earthly life secure and pleasant. An Iroquois funeral as observed by a French Jesuit missionary, early 1700s At left: the corpse with items to be buried with him At right: the burial pit being lined with animal skins Guiding Student Discussion When you take up Native American religion in class, you could spend hours describing the specific beliefs and rituals of the major tribes spanning the North American continent, but this barrage of information might leave your students feeling overwhelmed and confused. It might be more profitable to begin by promising yourself to avoid any approach to Native American spirituality that is too exhaustively detailed. Thus you might start by describing the most salient and definitive characteristics of Indian spirituality and its most basic similarities to and differences from Euro-American Christianity, about which many students may also have only the vaguest notions, so your remarks will do double duty.

10. Sacred Texts: Native American Public domain of etexts about Native American religion. Focus on reliable and detailed information about actual practices and mythology. http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/index.htm

Topics Home Catalog African Age of Reason ... Mysticism Native American Aztec California Cherokee Hopi ... Buy books: Native American Native American Religions Native American religion, mythology and folklore are covered extensively at this site: Aztecs Californian Inuit Maya ... Inca A long-standing problem with this section (and several others at this site relating to traditional peoples' spiritual beliefs) has been the lack of authoritative information. We are in the process of expanding this section by scanning public domain ethnographic accounts on specific Native American religious and spiritual practices. We are fortunate that there is a wealth of such material available, which makes it so much more puzzling why more of it is not on the Internet yet. The study of Native Americans by anthroplogists has had its share of bad science and ethical problems. However, the texts we are in the process of scanning were written by 19th and 20th Century ethnographers who were known for their careful and respectful approach to the people they studied. These were scholars who lived for years with the people they studied, and obtained permission to transcribe their oral sacred literature. General These texts cover a wide range of Native Americans or don't fit into one of the categories above.

11. Ronald L. Grimes, Teaching Native American Religions File RELIGION TEACH Last update 29 January 1995 Author Ronald L. Grimes (rgrimes@mach1.wlu.ca) http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/015.html

Documents menu File: RELIGION TEACH Last update: 29 January 1995 Author: Ronald L. Grimes (rgrimes@mach1.wlu.ca) Teaching Native American Religions By Ronald L. Grimes, [29 January 1995] I am submitting this query to invite reflection on three questions: Should or should not European Americans be teaching courses on Native American religions? If we should not, why not, and what would be the results of our deferral? If we should, how best can we proceed? I am giving much thought these days to the question of cultural imperialism, especially its religious and academic forms. While on leave, I have been asked by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to teach a very large, publicly visible introductory course on Native American religions. Vine Deloria teaches here. So does Sam Gill. So does Ward Churchill. So does Deward Walker. Until recently, so did David Carrasco. This is an sizeable concentration of authorities, of various sorts, on indigenous cultures, politics, law, and religions. Ordinarily, I teach courses on indigenous religions at Wilfrid Laurier, a small Canadian university where I do what I do in relative obscurity, at considerable distance from indigenous populations of the American Southwest, where I do most of my fieldwork, and at a remove from high-profile scholars whose names are regularly associated with Native American studies. Currently, this campus is the locus of a highly charged stand-off that no one talks much Sabout in public. In part, the issue has to do with academic, religious, and cultural turf. Often it does not have to do with who is right or wrong on a given issue, but with who ought to be speaking about such issues. Anyone who has read Churchill's critique (in Fantasies of the Master Race) of Gill's Mother Earth or heard Deloria's public but unpublished reflections on that book knows there are good reasons for Euroamerican scholars not to rush in, fools, where angels fear to tread.

12. Native American Religions Religion Spirituality In 2004 I met with a Native American woman from the Crow tribe in Yellowstone National Park. She still followed the ways of her people http://www.discusstheparanormal.com/topic1217.html

13. Native American Religions Native American spirituality includes a number of stories and legends that are mythological. Native American mythology helps explain or symbolizes Native American beliefs. http://english.turkcebilgi.com/Native American religions

EnglishInfo Search Türkçe Home Information Translation ... Native American religions Information about Native American religions Native American religions Information about Native American religions Double click any English word, to find Turkish meaning Native American spirituality includes a number of stories and legends that are mythological. Native American mythology helps explain or symbolizes Native American beliefs. Mythologies Abenaki Native American tribe located in the northeastern United States . Religious ceremonies are led by shamans, called Medeoulin (Mdawinno). Anishinaabe located primarily in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada Aztec . Myths and legends of Mesoamerican culture, recognized many gods and supernatural creatures. Blackfoot tribe of Native Americans who currently live in Montana . They lived west of the Great Lakes and lived in Montana and Alberta and participated in Plains Indian culture. Cherokee . Native American culture who mainly live in the southeastern United States and in Oklahoma Creek tribe of Native Americans from the southeastern United States. The shaman was called an Alektca.

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15. "the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Selling American Indian Spirituality Essay on the recent commercialism of American Indian spiritual tradition, by Pte Cante Winyan. http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/News2000/0800/WC000801Commentary.htm

NLThomas Selling American Indian Spirituality "Cheating Us, Cheating Them" Guest Commentary By Pte Cante Winyan (Buffalo Heart Women), South Dakota the People's Voice ~ Tuesday, August 1, 2000 We have come to a point in this society where everything has a price. Water is sold, dirt is sold, children are sold, and now in some areas even AIR is sold. So it’s no wonder that many people, with otherwise innocent intentions, will pay for American Indian spiritual teachings. Why would it be wrong? Everything has a price, doesn’t it? What most do not understand is this is the paradigm of the dominant culture. You don’t own the land, you don’t own spirituality, and therefore you can’t sell something you don’t own. When the Europeans first arrived on this land the slaughter of the people began when it was realized the “natives” would not “sell” their land and the choices were clear to the invaders: kill or dominate the savages to acquire the land necessary for the influx of thousands of newcomers. And they did this by any means available. Small pox infested blankets were distributed to many nations throughout the time of US expansion, as-well-as, withholding provisions after they were prisoners of the state, giving rancid meat and spoiled grain, changing the rules and laws, breaking treaties, sterilization of women without their permission, relocation, and the list goes on. The new government made it “illegal” for the Nations to continue their spiritual and community ways for generations. The practice of genocide and assimilation is still practiced within the borders of the Western Hemisphere and especially in the United States.

16. Native American Religions -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Native American religions, religious beliefs and sacramental practices of the indigenous peoples of North and South America. Until the 1950s it was commonly assumed that the http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/664229/Native-American-religion

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18. War Against Exploiters Of Lakota Spirituality Sioux stance against the theft and exploitation of traditional native spirituality and religion. http://www.aics.org/war.html

http://www.aics.org/war.html Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality First of all; We (meaning A.I.C.S.) did not write this declaration. It was written by Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Spiritual people. We do however support, and we encourage others to support, each and every word written here. Elders don't get around the internet like we do, so they are only partly aware of all the exploitation going on. Support those who wrote these words making it known to the exploiters - we know who and what they are, we do not approve, we are watching, and we are notifying others. Above all else, BOYCOTT the fakes and make sure your friends do not fall victim to them! At the Lakota Summit V, an international gathering of US and Canadian Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations, about 500 representatives from 40 different tribes and bands of the Lakota unanimously passed a "Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality." The following declaration was unanimously passed on June 10, 1993 Declaration of War WHEREAS we are the conveners of an ongoing series of comprehensive forums on the abuse and exploitation of Lakota spirituality; and

19. Native American Religions Many aspects of Native American religion prior to European contact are lost to modern scholars, but archaeological evidence has opened windows onto various http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1057.html

Encyclopedia o f Chicago ... User's Guide Entries : Native American Religions Entries N Native American Religions Next Native American Religions French By AD 1700 many Indians of the greater Chicago area organized community-level religious activities into medicine societies along the line of the more familiar Ojibwa Midewiwin or Medicine Lodge. The purpose of these societies ranged from associations of shamanistic curers to brotherhoods seeking long life and the prospect of reincarnation for their members, but all featured mourning observances. These organizations typically traced their origins to the time of creation and to events in the life of a demiurge or subordinate creator variously known as Manabush, Wenebojo, Michabo, and other names based on the concept of a Great Hare. Indian acceptance of Christianity proceeded rapidly among the Illinois or Iliniwek, beginning with missions of the French Jesuit fathers Jacques Marquette, Claude Allouez, and Jacques Gravier to the Kaskaskias and Peorias late in the seventeenth century. By contrast, resistance to European influences is epitomized by the conservatism of those Kickapoos who left the Illinois country in the second quarter of the nineteenth century and found their way to northern Mexico, where they have maintained their native language and preserved precontactreligious beliefs and practices to the present day.

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Index Shades Pre Columbian Religions Native Americans Maps ... Guestbook IV. After European Contact With the coming of Europeans to North America, Native Americans experienced a series of dislocations from which they are still struggling to recover. Foreign invaders overran their territories and claimed sovereignty over their communities, diseases ravaged their populations, and their environments were drastically altered. In many cases, Native Americans were forcibly removed from their aboriginal homelands and livelihoods, with the result that indigenous cultures underwent rapid change. In the midst of these crises, as Native Americans turned to their own religious traditions to understand and ease their plight, missionaries attempted to convert them from their traditional religions to Christianity. A. Christianity

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