Religion
Cherokee Spirituality
Among the Cherokee, spirituality (religion) was embedded into everyday life and was not seen as something apart. In her book Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture […]
Religion
Ute Spirituality
The Ute Indians were traditionally mountain-dwelling bands whose traditional territory extended from the southern Rocky Mountains in present-day Colorado, west to the Sevier River in […]
Ancient America: Some Aztec Gods
For the general public, the Aztecs (also known as the Mexica) are probably the best-known ancient American civilization. Like the Christians who later conquered much […]
Cayuga Ceremonies
The Cayuga, known as ”the people at the landing” in reference to portaging a canoe, are a part of the Iroquois Confederacy (also known as […]
Outlawing American Indian Religions
For the past five centuries, American Indians have had their religions suppressed (sometimes brutally and violently) and denied. With the formation of the United States […]
Religion and American Indians in 1816
During the nineteenth century, the United States sought to bring Christianity to the American Indians and to suppress the expression of Native religions. Briefly described […]
American Indian Religions in 1916
Following the policies of the nineteenth century, during the first part of the twentieth century the United States was firmly convinced that American Indians could […]
The Pawnee Morning Star Ceremony
Human sacrifice is generally defined as the ritual killing of a human being as a part of a religious ritual. While human sacrifice was an […]
Some American Indian Beliefs About an Afterlife
When the European invasion of North America began there were more than 600 autonomous Indian nations in the region, each with its own religion. While […]
Shawnee Spirituality
The Shawnee, whose name means “Southerners”, once occupied a vast region west of the Cumberland mountains of the Appalachian chain in what is now part […]