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Native American Religion & Ceremonies Indigenous Peoples:     more books (94)

Symbols of Native America by Heike Owusu, 1999-06-30 Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota (Civilization of the American Indian) by William K. Powers, 1992-09 Mindful of Famine: Religious Climatology of the Warao Indians (Religions of the World) by Johannes Wilbert, 1996-12 The Sacred Pipe Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux by J. E. Brown, 1970-06 The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge: As Told by His Daughter, Garter Snake The Hako: Song, Pipe, and Unity in a Pawnee Calumet Ceremony by Alice C. Fletcher, James R. Murie, 1996-11-28 The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas (Civilization of the American Indian) by William N. Fenton, 2003-02 We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs) by Russell Thornton, 1986-09-26 Performing the Renewal of Community by N. Ross Crumrine, 1997-09-11 The Cherokee Full Circle: A Practical Guide to Sacred Ceremonies and Traditions by J. T. Garrett, Michael Tlanusta Garrett, 2002-09-30 Prayer on Top of the Earth : The Spiritual Universe of the Plains Apaches by Kay Parker Schweinfurth, 2002-05 Rainhouse and Ocean: Speeches for the Papago Year by Ruth Murray Underhill, Donald M. Bahr, et all 1997-02-01 The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney, 1991-11-01 Kiowa Voices: Ceremonial Dance, Ritual, and Song, Vol. 1 by Maurice Boyd, 1981-01-01

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61. MSN Encarta - Native Americans Of Middle And South America
    southeast through much of Central America. Mesoamerican peoples also exploited many native fruits, including used for prayer and religious ceremonies, as well  
    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701509044/Native_Americans_of_Middle_and_Sou
    
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62. Native American Religions - III
    Part of Hopi religious practice is to make various kachinas are featured at festivals and ceremonies. One of the basic elements of native american ritual life  
    http://www.angelfire.com/realm/shades/nativeamericans/nativeamericanreligions2.h
    
    Extractions: Index Shades Pre Columbian Religions Native Americans Maps ... Guestbook III. Characteristic Features The indigenous peoples of North America perceived themselves as living in a cosmos pervaded by powerful, mysterious spiritual beings and forces that underlay and supported human life. Native Americans believed that in order to survive as individuals and communities, it was necessary to acknowledge these spiritual powers in every aspect of their lives—by addressing the powers in prayer and song, offering them gifts, establishing ritual relationships with them, and passing down knowledge about them to subsequent generations, primarily through myths. A. The Spirit World

63. AllRefer Encyclopedia - Delaware, Indigenous People Of North America (North Amer
    AllRefer.com reference and encyclopedia resource provides complete information on Delaware, indigenous people of North America, North american indigenous peoples. Includes related research links.  
    http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/D/Delawar-peo.html
    
    Extractions: By Alphabet : Encyclopedia A-Z D Related Category: North American Indigenous Peoples Delaware u u r] Pronunciation Key , English name given several closely related Native American groups of the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). In the 17th cent., they lived in what is now New Jersey, Delaware, E Pennsylvania, and SE New York. They called themselves the Lenni-Lenape or the Lenape and were given the name Delaware by the settlers because they lived in the vicinity of the Delaware River. The Delaware evolved into a loose confederacy of three major divisions: the Munsee (wolf), the Unalachtigo (turkey), and the Unami (turtle). They occupied the territory from which most of the Algonquian tribes had originated and were accorded the respectful title of grandfather by these tribes. They traded with the Dutch early in the 17th cent., sold much of their land, and began moving inland to the Susquehanna valley. In 1682 they made a treaty of friendship with William Penn, which he did his best to honor. In 1720 the Delaware fell victim to Iroquois attack and were forced to move into what is now Ohio. The western Delaware sided with the French in the last of the

64. Native Americans
    Spirituality http//www.montana.edu/wwwfpcc/tribes/religion.html 3 html View original photographs of native Americans and their ceremonies, dwellings, and  
    http://42explore.com/native.htm
    
    Extractions: This project on Native Americans includes tons of resources - - too many to fit onto just this one page! Connect to the project's three other companion pages for lots more ideas and information: (1) Biographies of Native Americans - A to Z Native American Tribes and Cultures , and (3) Easier - Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, are descendants of the first people to live in the Americas. They had been living there for thousands of years before any Europeans arrived. Harder - When Columbus landed in what is now known as the West Indies, he incorrectly thought he had reached the Indies. He called the native people he met Indians. The Indians of the Americas spoke hundreds of different languages, had many varied ways of life, and each group had its own name. Some lived in large cities and others in small villages. Still others kept moving throughout the year, hunting animals and gathering wild plants. First Americans by K. Martin (Grades 4-8)

65. Studying Indigenous Religions
    Studying indigenous Religions Overview of Key Elements. States, which forced the native Americans to perform losses of such sacred religious ceremonies and sites  
    http://www.uwec.edu/greider/Indigenous/Versluis/06ceremony.htm
    
    Extractions: Overview of Key Elements 6 CEREMONIES AND RITUALS Many traditional cultures use ceremonies and ritual to link together the human world, natural world, and the spiritual world. There are an extreme number of different ceremonies and rituals practiced throughout the Native American tribes, and here are a few examples of the most common. Many Native American traditions use drum, dance, and song to connect them with the spirit world. The drum is generally used to form a connection to the spirit world The drum is so significant that even some cultures base their religion on it. The Eskimo, for example, practice the ‘drum religion,’ in which the Eskimo shaman will drum continuously until the spirits possess him and speak through him. Songs or chants are often used to express appreciation and thanks for what has been given to the humans for survival. Versluis describes songs as, “Simple on the surface...nonetheless part of a liturgical cycle of great complexity and intricate symbolism that reveals humanity completely interlinked with nature, the sky, and the spirits.” (See p. 44) In Native American traditions, there are many types of dances, but all seem to share common themes.

66. Religions For Peace
    feminine spirit through stories, ceremonies and service of Sacred Texts/Religious Education; Interfaith native american Women s Health Education Resource Center.  
    http://www.wcrp.org/RforP/womens program/Global Directory/directoryindegenous.ht
    
    Extractions: email: admin@tom.unv.ernet.in Established as a forum for Adivasi/ indigenous people's movements all over India; aims to strengthen the process of building solidarity and alliances amongst struggle-oriented indigenous people's organizations; identify shared issues and problems, to generate debate on these issues and to provide support to help deal with them. One of the five working groups established by AICAIP, it is the only Indian indigenous people's organization to focus on women's issues. Alderville First Nation Women's Shelter Director: Wanda Sibley P.O. Box 39

67. The Aztecs/Mexicas
    The Aztecs/Mexicas were the native american people who dominated round of rites and ceremonies in the that Aztecs were primarily religious people and lived  
    http://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm
    
    Extractions: Indigenous Peoples' Literature Fearless warriors and pragmatic builders, the Aztecs created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Incas in Peru. As early texts and modern archaeology continue to reveal, beyond their conquests and many of their religious practices, there were many positive achievements: the formation of a highly specialized and stratified society and an imperial administration the expansion of a trading network as well as a tribute system the development and maintenance of a sophisticated agricultural economy, carefully adjusted to the land and the cultivation of an intellectual and religious outlook that held society to be an integral part of the cosmos. The yearly round of rites and ceremonies in the cities of Tenochtitlan and neighboring Tetzcoco, and their symbolic art and architecture, gave expression to an ancient awareness of the interdependence of nature and humanity. The Aztecs remain the most extensively documented of all Amerindian civilizations at the time of European contact in the 16th century. Spanish friars, soldiers, and historians and scholars of Indian or mixed descent left invaluable records of all aspects of life. These ethnohistoric sources, linked to modern archaeological inquiries and studies of ethnologists, linguists, historians, and art historians, portray the formation and flourishing of a complex imperial state. Aztec Creation Story Aztec Culture Aztec Images Aztec Information Exchange Center ... Tehuatzin ti Mexicatl - We Are Mexica Other Aztec Pages

68. Reader's Companion To U.S. Women's History - - Native American Religions
    and economic spheres were intricately interwoven with native values. It is only since the passage of the american Indian Freedom of religion Act (1978  
    http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/women/html/wh_026400_nativeameri3.ht
    
    Extractions: Entries Publication Data Advisory Board Contributors ... World Civilizations Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History Native American religions have been a major conundrum both historically and contemporarily for both Natives and non-Natives. For the former, it is an ongoing reality; for the latter, it is derision, or a searching, as in the New Age movement toward indigenous beliefs. The term religion has been used to describe the varied belief systems of North American aboriginal peoples, but this term reflects a concept superimposed by European conquerors. The core values and sentiments are often expressed in Native terms such as wakan (Lakota), meaning a universal force or power. The English term gloss , or spirituality, may be a more functional means for examining the complexities of Native epistemologies. European concepts of gods, hierarchical arrangements of spirits, and codified systems of reward and punishment such as heaven and hell are not categories that encompass the integrated whole of Native beliefs. Moreover, the emphasis upon medicine men, shaman, and male ceremonial leaders has served to obscure the dyadic relationships between males and females in the maintenance of spiritual well-being and in the performance of rituals that provide harmony and equilibrium within the larger social group. Women were part of the natural and supernatural world, as were men and children. Most beliefs and rituals fostered proper transitions from childhood to adulthood, and the rites of passage—birth, puberty, marriage, and death—were regulated by appropriate ceremonies to allow for personal development and a smoothly functioning social system. The Navajo (Diné) term

69. ACCESS FUND | WHO WE ARE | ABOUT US
    we give up climbing on every rock that native Americans assert has can t compel anyone to participate in the beliefs or ceremonies of a particular religion.  
    http://www.accessfund.org/whoweare/who_about_pos_sacred.html
    
    Extractions: Climbers are presently in a sort of Catch-22, a no-win situation where even our best and most compassionate efforts are causing our reputation to suffer. I refer to the rising incidence of conflict between climbers and Native Americans over "sacred sites." This issue isn't new. Climbing has been illegal for decades on such formations as the Totem Pole and Spider Rock (on the Navajo reservation), and perhaps to our collective discredit, we have climbed these formations anyway, savoring the experience the more because we were sampling forbidden fruit. Native Americans who live by "traditional ways" increasingly feel climbing desecrates their religious beliefs, and disrupts their religious ceremonies. Climbers are asked, How would you feel if we climbed on your churches while you were praying on Sunday mornings? This question is easy to answer, especially since many climbers, in their own way, consider our boulders, crags and mountains holy places, and we certainly have acted to preserve the qualities that make them special for us.

70. Välkommen Till Fjärde Värden.
    teachings and services of traditional religious institutions. to take an interest in native american or other rituals and ceremonies to nonnative people in USA  
    http://www.algonet.se/~f4world/sham.html
    
    Extractions: BACKGROUND INFORMATION The Western Neo-Shamanic Scene - a threat for indigenous peoples cultures, their spirituality and their identity. Many people are searching for a deeper spiritual engagement with the world, and feel a hunger unmet by the teachings and services of traditional religious institutions. Westerners have begun to take an interest in Native American or other indigenous spiritual practices - one can easily find books, workshops and lectures offering rituals and ceremonies to non-native people in USA, Canada, Europe or Australia. However, many indigenous people, including highly respected religious elders, have condemned such "borrowing." They identify it as a form of cultural exploitation, gravely detrimental to the survival and well-being of indigenous people. European-Americans have stolen Native lands, Native resources, Native children, Native cultural images, and more recently Native profits. Now, they are are taking Native spirituality, too. All of these thefts constitute violations of Native sovereignty - the inherent right of indigenous nations to govern themselves, and keep the lands, cultures, and economies that belong to them.

71. Communities Against Rape & Abuse
    the use of peyote by the native american Church but to US government corporate control over native lands but in fact an integral part of religious ceremonies. .  
    http://www.cara-seattle.org/underwire/
    
    Extractions: A Review of the Trailer for the Upcoming Film "Dreamcatcher" By Theryn Kigvamasud'Vashti, Community Organizer, The Black People's Project Recently, for a second time I saw the movie Signs" with a girlfriend. She noted that she knew that the film was going to be a horror film after seeing that all of the movie promos for upcoming films included mostly horror movies due out this fall. One of the trailers we discussed was the advertisement for the picture "Dreamcatcher" a new movie based on the novel by Stephen King and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. Dreamcatcher is the story of "four young friends who perform a heroic act ‹ and are changed forever by the uncanny powers they gain in return. Years later the friends, now men, are on a hunting trip in the Maine woods when they are overtaken by a blizzard, a vicious storm in which something much more ominous moves ..." ( dreamcatchermovie.warnerbros.com/" The Dreamcatcher trailer begins with cuts between a bird's eye view of a single car traveling along a road in a winter forest and a extreme close-up of a "dream catcher" while the voiceover announces the premise of the film: "There are those who believe your dreams have great power and to remain safe you must sleep underneath a dream catcher. The legend says pleasant dreams pass through the center while nightmares become entangled in its web. This time something evil slips through ..."

72. The Spiritual Sanctuary Celebrates The Native American Faith
    others to clarify that the native american spiritual tradition that the components of the religion must be considerable disrespect for the native tradition and  
    http://www.thespiritualsanctuary.org/Native/Native.html
    
    Extractions: NOTE: Texts and quotations by Julian Burger and the indigenous peoples are used with permission of *The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples: A Future for the Indigenous World,* by Julian Burger with campaigning groups and native peoples worldwide. (London: Gaia Books Ltd, 1990. Some of what follows was written by representatives of indigenous peoples; some was provided by non-indigenous people. "... because their ancestors were the original inhabitants of the lands, since colonized by foreigners. Many territories continue to be so invaded. The book also calls them indigenous, a term widely accepted by the peoples themselves, and now adopted by the United Nations." (BURGER, p.16) `Fourth World' is a term used by the World Council of Indigenous Peoples to distinguish the way of life of indigenous peoples from those of the First (highly industrialized), Second (Socialist bloc) and Third (developing) worlds. The First, Second and Third Worlds believe that `the land belongs to the people'; the Fourth World believes that `the people belong to the land. (BURGER, p.18)

73. Lesson Plans
    ceremonies, including songs, dance, and timehonored Land, religion, language, and ceremonial life give native Americans recognize the ebbs and flows in their  
    http://www.ed-resources.net/guide/lessonplans/persistent/more.htm
    
    Extractions: Early travelers in the Americans described Native Americans in many ways: savage, noble, a vanishing race, and a part of nature, just like the wilderness, that had to be tamed and conquered. Because of efforts to assimilate them or remove them from their lands, native societies developed means by which to retain all that made them unique, and Native Americans never lost their associations with traditions and identity. Because of this, Native Americans never quite fit into the social, political, economic, and cultural patterns of others and even as efforts increased to bring Native Americans into mainstream society, they remained on the margin. Persistence of a Native American life way comes from historical and cultural processes. No other people engaged in treaty making with the central government of the country of which they were original inhabitants, indeed "owners." A unique concept of tribal sovereignty, virtual nations within nations, emanated from centuries-long debate over the existing rights and recognition of pre-European forms of self-government. In the 19th century, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall found that Indians were indeed domestic nations, unique from states, and bound to the federal government in a special way defined by treaties and other official mandates. Native Americans' enduring claim to a difference stems from their will to be a people who differed from all other "minorities" by the constant claim to a separate, not integrated, status within American society. Not surprisingly, this distinction comes from the abiding sense of

74. Course Research Guide Fs111A
    Religious Movements Homepage native american Spirituality from HAMINDIAN american Indian History and scholars, academicians, and native peoples to consider  
    http://www.noblenet.org/merrimack/guides/FS111A.htm

75. Native American Spirituality
    Vine Deloria, Jr. God is Red A native View of religion (Fulcrum Publishing, 1994). american Indian Mythology (Mentor Books, 1968). Carol Lee Sanchez.  
    http://www.greenspirit.org.uk/resources/NatAmerSpirit.htm
    
    Extractions: TOPIC: Native American Spirituality Editor Donna Ladkin The papers relating to this topic are: Carol Lee Sanchez. Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral. Jack D. Forbes. Indigenous Americans: Spirituality and Ecos Introduction to the Topic There were over one thousand different tribal peoples indigenous to the North American continent when Europeans first arrived in that territory. Each tribe had its own set of festivals, rituals, and spiritual beliefs, therefore to write of 'Native American spirituality' as one entity would be erroneous. However, common features are apparent across tribal peoples, pointing to some of the assumptions which inform the spiritual beliefs and practices of those indigenous to the North American continent . Spirituality played a central role in the lives of many of these peoples, for as Angie Debo writes: he [the Indian] was deeply religious. The familiar shapes of earth, the changing sky, the wild animals he knew, were joined with his own spirit in mystical communion. The powers of nature, the personal quest of the soul, the acts of daily life, the solidarity of the tribeall were religious, and were sustained by dance and ritual. This piece attempts to highlight some of the key aspects which Native American peoples share in terms of their spirituality. There is much that has been written in this area, and the brief list of suggested books I offer may provide a starting point for those wishing to pursue this area further.

76. North American Indian Religions --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Art
    on behalf of individuals in response to specific needs, most Pueblo ceremonies are performed However, all native North american religions share certain  
    http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=380479&query=religions, classification

77. Peyote Religion: Spiritual Soul Food
    In the mid 1800 s, simultaneous with native genocide, the peyote religion spread north peyote ceremony which was introduced to the american Plains Indians  
    http://www.csp.org/nicholas/A57.html
    
    Extractions: by Leo Mercado Peyote has a long history of use as a medicinal and sacramental herb. Prehistoric trade in and knowledge of the sacred cactus was apparently well established prior to the European conquest of Mexico. At that time, Spanish Inquisitors declared its use to be a punishable crime against God. As in the case of Teonanacatl, the sacred mushrooms of MesoAmerica, the fact that the peyote religion continues to exist despite centuries of persecution is a testament to its importance in the spiritual lives of many. Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small (less than 12 cm in diameter), round cactus with fuzzy tufts instead of spines. It rarely rises more than an inch or so above the soil surface. The largest part of the cactus is actually underground in the long, carrot-like root. The above ground portion is the "button" which is cut and consumed either fresh or dried. Myths concerning the presence of strychnine in the flesh or fuzz are often circulated in the common lore, but this substance is completely absent from peyote. Most formal peyote ceremonies mix drumming, singing, prayer, and stories as a means of offering thanks and as a way of sharing this blessing with the Creator and their fellow communicants. Deeply meaningful and highly personalized inspirational revelation is often a very important part of the individual's experience. Participants in such peyote "meetings" often grow in empathy and in friendship with the people who have shared the peyote night with them. Lifelong associations are made in this way.

78. For Mother Earth: Working Group On Indigenous Peoples' Issues
    by a silent retaliation guard force against native Americans. Richard Morgan has testified that native inmates could because of their race or religious belief.  
    http://www.motherearth.org/h-rights/alerts.php
    
    Extractions: Home Latest News Action Alert Support us ... Archive Our Campaigns... Carbon Dinosaurs ANTI-NUCLEAR: Bomspotting Citizen inspections Inspection handbook G. W. Bush: Wanted Trident Ploughshares Depleted Uranium ANTI-MILITARISM Belgian Anti-war coalition US Product boycott Conscientious Objection Prisoner Support INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: Depleted Uranium Nanish Shontie INFO-CENTRE: Magazine Rack Lekker GEC FOR MOTHER EARTH: About For Mother Earth Bulletin Links Nederlands English Introduction Mission statement ... Nanish Shontie

79. SAAM :: Pueblo Indian Watercolors
    native americans, whose ancestors crossed from Asia to nineteenth century in the american Southwest. together to talk, work, and conduct religious ceremonies.  
    http://americanart.si.edu/education/guides/pueblo/pueblo_glossary.cfm
    
    Extractions: In the early sixteenth century, all of the land in the Western Hemisphere (including North, Central, and South America) was named after the little-known Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci, who some thought was the first European to visit the continents of the Western Hemisphere. Although many people use the name "America" to mean the United States of America, the U.S.A. is only one of many countries in America. The first people to live in the Southwest of what is now the United States were members of different Indian cultures. The next group to arrive were Spanish explorers, soldiers, and settlers who came north from Mexico. Later, other explorers, soldiers, and settlers came from the eastern United States. Because most of them spoke English, they were called Anglos (a term that refers to the Anglo-Saxon roots of the English people) by the Hispanic and Indian peoples already there. Even though Caucasian people are not necessarily of English descent, Anglo continues to be used in the area to identify non-Hispanics and non-Indians. The historical name for the Iberian peninsula where Spain is located is Hispania. Like many European nations, Spain established colonies on the African, Asian, and American continents. Although they did not live in Spain, many colonists around the globe referred to themselves as "Spanish" to differentiate themselves from indigenous peoples who lived in areas before the colonial conquests.

80. Resources For Religious/spiritual Interpreting (M-Z)
    A guide to etiquette in other people s religious ceremonies. Hand signals of the North american Indians and FL Israel (eds) (1997) native american talking signs  
    http://www.rit.edu/~dabdis/rlgn/rsorcs2.html

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