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Who is the all-encompassing Great Mystery god of the Native American people?
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Your question supposes that all native American peoples, from the Arctic Circle to the southern tip of South America all believe in a supreme "mystery god" with the same name. This is a totally false idea.
Native American religions are extremely complex and in certain cases there is no supreme god, or not one that can be easily pinpointed.
Among the Crows of Montana, it is difficult to say clearly if the Sun is regarded as the supreme spirit being (what Robert H Lowie describes as "the most dominant single figure" in their religion), or if it is Old Man Coyote (also called Akbaa'tat-dia, the Creator of Everything) - but hewas never revered in the same way as the Sun. To complicate matters even further, 19th century Crows testified that they always prayed first to their own individual protective spirit and only rarely to the Sun.
The Narragansetts and Wampanoags of New England believed in a very large number of spirit beings including the four directions and winds, the sun, the evil god, the house god, the woman's god, the sea god, the fire god and the children's god. Collectively these were called manittowok. Manit is the general term for any god or spirit.
Among the Lakota or Teton Sioux the term wakantanka is used for "great mystery", but this force is believed to exist in everything and is included as just one of a large number of spirits. It can not be viewed simplistically as a supreme deity.
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