What is the traditional belief of Native Americans?

Answer 1

A common misconception about the pre-Columbian Americas is that people lived in one commonly organized society, kind of like the United States. Actually, Native Americans have always had individual nations - that is why you will hear people today refer to (for instance) "the Navajo Nation" or "the Hopi Nation." These nations were as diverse and different as Canada and Turkey and Somalia and so on.

Just as nations today contain many different beliefs, so did the early Americas. As a matter of fact, because sharing ideas took so much longer then, and because of the vast distances over which people were spread, the many beliefs held by one early American nation were usually very different than those of their neighbors. Where nations had alliances like trade networks, they often exchanged ideas, or could adopt the practices and beliefs of another nation voluntarily such as where intermarriage or adoption took place. In some circumstances people could be forced to adopt the customs of another nation, as was the case for many prisoners of war or those taken as slaves. Overall, a person's religious beliefs were closely linked with their citizenship, and people generally didn't "convert" in the sense that we think of today.

As for the individual beliefs of those nations, try choosing a specific Native American nation, or tribe, and learning about their traditions. Living nations take great care to record and preserve all of their heritage, including religious beliefs. Nations that are extinct are studied extensively by researchers who try hard to accurately reconstruct what those people once thought and did.

Answer 2

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