21. Native American Religions A brief introduction to the Native American religious tradition. http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/NativeAmerican.htm

Families of Religions Native American Religions Native American Religions are many. Because of the local focus of these traditions, each brings the unique experience and knowledge of that group of people. The nomadic practices of many of groups means no buildings and few artifacts can be used to study the past. This page will include only information that is deemed to be public knowledge. We honor the traditions and respect the wishes of spiritual elders. Many Native people count themselves as Christian and observe traditional Christian sacred times. Links: The following web sites offer information on how selected Indian Nations are living today and how spiritual observations happen. The Red Lake Indian Nation The Quinault Indian Nation First Nations observations in Canada Update 10-19-04 See Combinations page as well Return to Families of Religions Home Page Return to Interfaith Calendar

22. Native American Religions Books And Articles - Research Native native american religions Scholarly books and articles on native american religions at Questia, world s largest online library and research service. http://www.questia.com/library/religion/other-practices/native-american-religion

23. Native American Religions: An Introduction - Questia Online Library native american religions An Introduction, page null1 Questia Media America, Inc. www.questia.com Publication Information Book Title Native American http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=98058374

24. Ronald L. Grimes, Teaching Native American Religions Ronald L. Grimes, Teaching native american religions. 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.

25. Web Guide For Native American Religions This document is meant to be a guide to resources for the undergraduate study of native american religions using resources available at the libraries of the http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/natamreligion/nar.htm

Guide to Research in Native American Religions An annotated guide to resources available to UIUC students, featuring Article databases UIUC Library Tips Government Documents Encyclopedias, Bibliographies and Resource Guides ... Print-friendly version This guide was developed to help UIUC undergraduate students locate materials on Native American religions both in the UIUC library system and on the Web Introduction: The study of Native American Religions is a highly interdisciplinary topic, and draws together materials from disciplines such as History, Anthropology, Literature, Law, and Religious Studies. A good place to start for general resources for Native American Studies can be found at Guide to Sources on Native Americans , a Resource Guide from the Education and Social Sciences Library. Additional guides are available at the Native American Studies Library Resources site. Article Databases: Almost any general article database will contain some material on Native American religions. The specific purpose and topic of your research will determine the best database to use. If you are writing a freshman-level term paper or if you need background information to help select a topic, use a database with general coverage, such as

26. MSN Encarta - Native American Religions Search for books and more related to native american religions Great books about your topic, native american religions, selected by Encarta editors http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580498/Native_American_Religions.html

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Sign In Web Search: Encarta Subscriber Sign In Help Home ... Upgrade your Encarta Experience Search Encarta Upgrade your Encarta Experience Spend less time searching and more time learning. Learn more Tasks Find in this article Print Preview Related Items brief overview Pre-Columbian Religions more... Further Reading Editors' picks for Native American Religions Search for books and more related to Native American Religions Encarta Search Search Encarta about Native American Religions Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Native American Religions ... Click here Advertisement document.write(' Native American Religions Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 6 items Article Outline Introduction Origins and Development Characteristic Features After European Contact ... Contemporary Trends I Introduction Print Preview of Section Native American Religions , beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes of the indigenous peoples of North America concerning the spiritual forces of the cosmos. These beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes remained an integral part of indigenous North American cultures until the European settlement of North America was completed at the end of the 19th century. Beginning in the mid-20th century, Native American religions underwent a revival, particularly among the Plains peoples. (For additional information on Native American cultures, see Native Americans II Origins and Development Print Preview of Section From their arrival on the continent at least 15,000 years ago until their encounter with Europeans, the indigenous peoples of North America lived primarily as hunters and gatherers. Until the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago, the peoples of North America shared a common culture with other Arctic peoples. They were, for the most part, nomadic hunters who tracked large mammals of the late

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28. Native American Religions, Myths And Origin Stories The Labriola National American Indian Data Center resources on native american religions, Myths and Origin Stories. http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/religion.htm

Labriola Center The following bibliography lists reference material dealing with Native American religions, myths and origin stories. These resources include material found in the Labriola Center in the University Libraries at Arizona State University, websites, and other research facilities. This subject guide is also located on the Labriola Center website at http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/labriola.htm Religion is a basic attribute of humanity cherished by mankind in all ages, races and cultures. This subject guide attempts to provide an overview of research pertaining to Native American religious beliefs, practices and histories. Overall, a large body of material exists about Native American worldview and sacred beliefs in spirits, the Native American Church, peyote religion, Plains Sun Dances, Navajo Chants, Pueblo ceremonialism, guardian spirits and vision quests, Inuit masks, Iroquois thanksgiving rites, shamanism, and medicine objects. Within this core of research contains the mythology and origin stories of many Native American peoples which incorporates many mythical figures, elemental and seasonal phenomenon, and landmarks and sacred sites. Books Encyclopedia of Native American Religions , Arlene Hirschfelder. New York : Facts on File, 1992. A comprehensive reference publication on Native American religions and their components and historical antecedents, myths, and origin stories.

29. Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act objects which are needed by traditional Native American religious leaders for the practice of traditional native american religions by their present http://www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra/MANDATES/25USC3001etseq.htm

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act PUBLIC LAW 101-601NOV. 16, 1990 NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT [104 STAT. 3048 PUBLIC LAW 101-601NOV. 16, 1990] Public Law 101-601 101st Congress An Act Nov.16,1990 [H.R. 5237] To provide for the protection of Native American graves, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Hawaiian Natives. Historic preservation. 25 USC 3001 note. 25 USC 3001. SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act". SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

30. Protecting Religious Freedom And Sacred Sites - FCNL Issues Protecting Religious Freedom and Sacred Sites. native american religions practiced today, as they have been for thousands of years, are land based. http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1475&issue_id=96

31. Native American Religions Entries native american religions native american religions attributed spiritual qualities and mental powers to all aspects of nature, from the earth 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.

32. RELG 290 - Native American Religions - Internet Sites In addition, several elements and rituals of Native American religion are described. The site gives a general introduction to native american religions http://www.otterbein.edu/resources/library/libpages/class/RELG290I.htm

Search the Library Site Religion 290 : Native American Religions Internet Sites First Nation This site includes an index page for a wide variety of Native American issues. Background information on many tribes is also provided. Native American Information Resource Server This site provides links to many other sites related to Native American life and issues. Native American Religion and Spirituality Information on Native American religious practices (by tribe) is provided. Native American Spirituality An explanation of Native Americans' view of religion is given as well as the origins of Native American spirituality. In addition, several elements and rituals of Native American religion are described. Native American Religions The site gives a general introduction to Native American religions including origins and beliefs. The religious practices of a few tribes are described. The topic of how Native American religions have survived in today's society is also addressed. Native Religions of Newfoundland and Labrador The native religions of traditional Native American groups of Newfoundland and Labrador is examined. The Beothuk, Micmac, Inuit, and Innu are covered in detail.

33. RELG290 -- NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS Seeing with a Native Eye Essays on Native American Religion Spirit Wars Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building http://www.otterbein.edu/resources/library/libpages/class/RELG290B.htm

Search the Library Site RELG 290 NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS Reference Books General Collection REFERENCE BOOKS Bataille, Gretchen M. (Ed.) Native American Women : A Biographical Dictionary Ref E98.W8 B38 1993 Dockstader, Frederick J. Great North American Indians : Portraits in Life and Leadership Ref E89 .D55 Encyclopedia of Native American Shamanism Ref E98.M4 L98 1998 The Gale Encyclopedia of North American Tribes (4 vols.) Ref E98.R4 G446 1994 Gill, Sam D. Dictionary of Native American Mythology Ref E98.R4 G46 1994 Hirschfelder, Arlene The Native American Almanac : A portrait of Native America Today Ref E77 .H59 1993 Lyon, William S. Encyclopedia of Nataive American Healing Ref E90.M4 L96 1996 Smithsonian Institution Handbook of North American Indians Ref E77 .H25 Sonneborn, Liz. A to Z of Native American Women Ref E98.W8 S65 1998

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36. Teaching About Native American Religions On Teaching native american religions Response to Ron Grimes questions to three Graduate students come to Colorado to study native american religions. http://puffin.creighton.edu/lakota/teaching.html

Teaching Native American Religions The following is a series of discussions concerning the teaching of Indian religions outside of their own cultural context. Ron Grimes has also published an article on this topic in The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 20, Number 3 (1996), pages 433-450. The title of the article is: This May Be a Feud, But It Is Not a War: An Electronic, Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Teaching Native Religions From: Ron Grimes, U Colorado Boulder (at the time) MX%"nn.chat@gnosys.svle.ma.us" 6-MAY-1993 18:51:48.40 Subj: Teach. Nat. Am. Rel. I am submitting this query simultaneously to two electronic discussion groupsone on religious studies, the other on Native American issuesto invite reflection on three questions: 1. Should or should not European Americans be teaching courses on Native American religions? 2. If we should not, why not, and what would be the results of our deferral? 3. If we should, how best can we proceed? I am giving much thought these days to the question of cultural imperialism, especially in two of its forms, namely, religious and academic imperialism. 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. Even without David Carrasco, soon on his way to Princeton, 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 can do what I do in relative obscurity, that is, at considerable remove from indigenous populations of the American Southwest, where I do most of my field work, and at a considerable remove from high-profile scholars whose names are regularly associated with Native American studies.

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http://members.aol.com/porchthree/nativeam.htm - Native Americans Interfaith Religion and Beliefs for an Internet Generation PORCH NUS The E-Zine of The Front Porch Religions of the World Native American Spirituality Native American Spirituality might be defined as the indigenous religious traditions of the many peoples who inhabited the Americas prior to contact with Europeans from 1492 onward. The customs, rituals and iconography varied tremendously throughout the Americas. Attempting to compare them with the formalized written traditions of Asia, Europe and the Middle East is an exercise in futility. Native American Spirituality was (and is, for those still practicing it) part and parcel of living. It involved a relationship with the natural world as opposed to a weekly or daily schedule of worship services. With few exceptions there was no priesthood or system of temples. Above all, there was no written record and, but for a very few cases, no inscriptions or monuments. Foreword to Soul of the Indian © 1911 by Charles Alexander Eastman Full Electronic Text at University of Virginia "WE also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us their children. It teaches us to be thankful, to be united, and to love one another! We never quarrel about religion."

38. The Sacred Siskiyous - Religious Freedom For Native Americans In many cases, such rulings reflect a misunderstanding of Native American religion. Deities in most native american religions are immanent in Nature, http://www.planetaryexploration.net/patriot/sacred_siskiyous.html

The Sacred Siskiyous - Religious Freedom For Native Americans by Harold W. Wood, Jr. Can those who use the wilderness for religious experiences prevent impending destruction of that wilderness on the theory of the First Amendment right of religious freedom? For the first time, federal courts at both the trial and appellate level have given an affirmative answer to that question. [N.B. Ultimately these decisions were reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.] For several years, efforts by Native Americans to prevent development of their sacred grounds has met with little success. For example, when members of the Cherokee Indian tribe brought suit to halt construction of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River because it would flood their "sacred homeland", the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the District Court's decision that the flooding caused by the dam would destroy only "cultural history and tradition" rather than any true religious interest. In many cases, such rulings reflect a misunderstanding of Native American religion. Deities in most Native American religions are immanent in Nature, and thus sacred lands are not only similar to a "church" from the non-Native perspective, but such sites are temples in the most profound sense - as dwelling places for sacred beings. But because most non-Indians use outdoor areas at most merely for recreation, if not for extraction of natural resources, typically efforts to protect a particular landscape for religious reasons are rebuffed. One reason the courts failed to recognize the legitimate religious concerns involved was because the issues were usually decided without a trial, through the opponent's use of a motion for summary judgment.

39. Listening To Native Americans - John Barry Ryan I only dared propose a course on native american religions because I had researched Navajo In native american religions Sources and Interpretations, http://www.op.org/DomCentral/library/native.htm

Vol. 31, No.1 Winter 1996 pp. 24-36 Listening to Native Americans: Making Peace with the Past for the Future John Barry Ryan John Barry Ryan is Professor of Religious Studies and a member of the Peace Studies faculty at Manhattan College. His research interests include liturgical studies and American Indian religions. It is a Native American tradition to introduce oneself before one speaks. In that spirit, I begin with some steps in my own journey of listening to Native Americans. I acknowledge at the outset that for most of my life I did not listen, maybe could not listen. But for a decade now, I have been attempting to listen to Native Americans. "Attempting" is the appropriate word because I am very much aware that I bring preconceptions, hardheadedness, and lack of attention to the conversation. Even worse, Native Americans have taught me that I carry a much heavier burden. I view the world from the conqueror's point of view, which informs everything I do. I knew this intellectually, but in listening to Native Americans I understand more concretely and in some detail what it means. I only dared propose a course on Native American Religions because I had researched Navajo prayer forms for two papers that I presented, one in 1985 at the annual meeting of the North American Academy of Liturgy and the other in 1991 at the biannual meeting of

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Home Back to disciplines Request exam copy Order Native Religions of North America The Power of Visions and Fertility à ke Hultkrantz The religious life of Native Americans is a panorama featuring an immense diversity of beliefs, ceremonies, and ways of life. Native Religions of North America reflects this rich tradition as it admirably distills a complex subject in a practical and engaging manner. Through concise expression and careful choice of examples, Hultkrantz identifies the diversity and continuities in American Indian spirituality. He introduces the hunters and farmers, the past and present, and the physical contexts and the sublime speculations of tribal religions, even the subtle shades of meaning within an Indian community. 144 pages, $13.95 list; ISBN 0-88133-985-7 “Hultkrantz is without question one of the leading authorities on American Indian religions. His mind is inquiring, his perceptions are sound, his learning is substantial, and his writing is clear and engaging.” — N. Scott Momaday Table of Contents Chronology of Native American Culture and Religion 1. Introduction to Native American Religions

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