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Native American Beliefs
Values
Giving and sharing
Sacrafice
Language Preservation
Community: Group, Clan, or Tribal emphasis
Harmony with Nature
Rituals
Sun Dance
Time is always with us
Culture/Traditions
Rituals
Protect
Reciting prayers and singing praises
Visions
Sacrafice
Creation Stories
Symbolic
refer to larger bodies of oral literature
Survival
hunting, gathering, and farming stories talk about how to collect, prepare, and eat foods
Lessons
describe how and why things are the way they are
Lakota Origin Story
Story
Hopi Origin Story
Story
Love Stories
Natural
water cycles, inter-species relationships, life cycles of plants, earth movements, and soil types
Symbols
Animals
White Buffalo Woman
Story
Turtle
(good health, long life)
Eagle
(protection, freedom)
The Eagle and the Moon Myth
Story
Fox
(stealth, shape-shifting)
Horse
(travel, nobility)
Weather
Rain
Positive
Renewal, fertility, upcoming change
Lightning
Warpaint
Achievements
Heroism
Sun
Earth's Guardian
energy, healing
Tattoos
Tribal
status
warpaint
initiation
Spiritual
coming of age
symbolic
rite of passage
Rites
No difference between man and animal brothers
Death and Afterlife
Burial customs
left food and possesions at burial
Sacrafice
Feared Ghosts
burned bodies quickly
Left frozen bodies for animals to devour
Vision Quest
A vision comes to the quester
In the form of an animal or other object of nature
Today, Indian religions have been actively hindered or only partially protected.
