Native American literature written in the 18th and 19th century is considered a literature of transition between the oral tradition which
Two-Spirit (also two spirit or, occasionally, twospirited) is a modern, pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some indigenous North Americans to describe certain people in their communities who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) ceremonial role in their cultures.
Native American religions: 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 religions of the surviving Native Americans were little more than curious anachronisms, dying remnants of humankind’s
History/Philosophy. Native American medicine refers to the combined health practices of over 500 distinct nations that inhabited the Americas before the European arrival at the end of the fifteenth century.
Oral tradition: Oral tradition, the first and still most widespread mode of human communication. Far more than “just talking,” oral tradition refers to a dynamic and highly diverse oral-aural medium for evolving, storing, and …
The Peyote Religion legally termed and more properly known as the Native American Church has also been called the “Peyote Road” or the “Peyote Way”, is a religious tradition involving the ceremonial and sacred use of Lophophora williamsii (peyote).
Tweet The Native American culture is known for its rich oral tradition – instead of using a written language to document their history, these indigenous people simply relied on their verbal language to share their history, customs, …
The Native American world-view. Among all tribes there is a strong sense that behind all individual spirits and personifications of the divine, there is a single creative life-force, sometimes called ‘the Great Mystery’, which expresses itself throughout the universe, in every human, , tree and grain of sand.
A word to the wise for non-Indians in search of Native American religions and spirituality. Explains the differences between traditional American Indian belief and European paganism, Russian shamanism, and the New Age.
Native American Oral Traditions and Archaeology Roger Anyon, T.J. Ferguson, Loretta Jackson, and Lillie Lane
