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NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGION (NON-HUMAN WORLD (Reincarnations common. Believed…
NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGION
RELIGIOUS SPECIALIST
NAVAHO : "Singers" not shaman, but priests who acquire skill and knowledge through long internships.
CHEROKEE: Shaman or Medicine Man/Woman 
SYMBOLS
LAKOTA SIOUX
medicine wheel.
medicine bundle: individualized pouches with certain stones, feathers and elements that symbolize powers for carrier.
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PEACE PIPES: Ceremonial. Made of calumet red stone.
NAVAHO
Sacred Colors: white, blue, black, red.
NON-HUMAN WORLD
Reincarnations common. Believed life and death part of one ongoing. With animals too. Hunters must gain peace with an animal they kill so when they reincarnate, they will be on good terms.
"Great spirit" or creator, presides over all things and created the earth. (cherokee).
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The YEI: supernatural power that can be summoned by masked dancers. Traditionally afterlife is viewed as negative, unspoken of. NATURE is power. - Navaho
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MYTHS
Four worlds: cat people on the second world. Fourth world not as pure as some of the others, but were able to survive. - Navaho
The world was once floating island in a large body of water. Beavers grandchild dove down from the sky and pulled mud up from the bottom to the surface. - Cherokee
INYAN: the stone creator. We all come from stone, the stones everywhere are our grandfathers. They talk to us. -Lakota