Native American Spirituality

There is currently no known cure for dying, as death is a natural part of life. However, medical advancements and healthcare interventions can sometimes prolong life and improve quality of life. Ultimately, the focus should be on living a healthy and fulfilling life while accepting the inevitability of death.

I don't think that is a common or well founded belief. Possibly another silly urban myth.

The Navajo and many of the Pueblo people in the American Southwest believe that humans emerged from worlds below this one. The Navajo traditional beliefs say that there were three (or four, depending on the teller) worlds before this one. The story is told in the Diné Bahaneʼ, the story of the people.

Each world has a signature color and is less complete than the next one. People must leave each one because of fights or mistakes or taboos broken. The first world is black, the second was blue, the third was yellow. In that world men and women argued about who was more important, which led in the end to having to leave to this world, the white or glittering world. The emergence place is usually said to be in the San Juan mountains. Or at the confluence of the San Juan and Amimas Rivers. The Sacred Mountains were re-formed from soil taken from the original mountains in the Second World. First Man, First Woman, and the Holy People created the sun, moon, seasons, and stars. It was here that true death came into existence via Coyote tossing a stone into a lake and declaring that if it sank then the dead would go back to the previous world.

The first human born in the Fourth World is Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé (Changing Woman) who, in turn, gives birth to the Hero Twins called Naayééʼ Neizghání and Tóbájíshchíní. The twins help to rid the world of various monsters. Multiple batches of modern humans were created a number of times in the Fourth World and the Diyin Dineʼé , Holy People, gave them ceremonies which are still practiced today.

The European idea of an underworld were the dead live or are punished is not a traditional Navajo belief. It is felt that either people become insubstantial shadows or more commonly that we live on in four ways. Our body becomes part of plants and animals, the spirits that were organized to be our unique personality drift off to become part of other things, except for the bad parts of you which stay with your bones and are polluting, you live on in your children and family and lastly in the memories of others and rituals you perform.

In a powow there are a lot of dancers dressed in colorful outfits and a strong drum beat and singing, there are also competitions for the best costumes and best dancers. There are various pow-wows that happen in Canada and the States, so it's best to keep an eye out for any advertisements in newspapers, fliers, television or magazines for a pow-wow that will take place near you.

The poem 'Thank You God For Everything' means paying homage to the almighty. There are many religions that believe God is everywhere. This includes in your heart and soul, along with the environment and in every facet of your life. Whether during good times or bad, thanking God for everything is the first step towards salvation. While there are many people that do not believe in God, there is a spiritual form that is higher than all of us. This form can be scientific according to scientists and atheists, or God to those that believe in his or her higher power.

The aboriginals of the Northwest Territories were typically nomadic groups, oriented with a mother earth/creator type spirituality. They believed in legends which explained the origin of the mountains, rivers, lakes, fish, etc. It is in fact, often very hard to distinguish between the Northern Aboriginal way of life and their spirituality because they were so closely interconnected.

These people also believed and continue to believe very strongly in individuals with medicine powers (powers passed to those who have done good deeds, inherited, or stolen).

Women were expected to stay home most of the time, and raise the children, scrape hides, etc. but were revered for these abilities and were thought to possess powers of their own. The only explanation I have heard of these powers, however, is that women posses these powers because they may bleed and not die.

The area which I grew up in (The Deh Cho) was strongly influenced by the legend of a strong medicine man called Yamoria.

I'm not sure what the exact term for this type of spirituality would be. Either way, Aboriginal spirituality is by no means the only religion of people in the Northwest Territories today, in fact, it is quickly dying out despite many government initiated projects to maintain it due to it's cultural value and identity. The residential schools which were implemented in the 20th century have converted many Aboriginal northerners to Catholicism and Protestantism.

In some Native American legends, skin-walker is a person with the supernatural ability to turn into any animal he or she wants to. Similar folklore can be found throughout other cultures.

To the Navajo a skinwalker ( yinaaldǫǫshii ) is a witch with bad medicine. Brings bad luck.

In some Native American traditions, a spirit animal acts as a spiritual companion or counselor to the unconscious self (soul.) The spirit animal can also emphasize and strengthen specific characteristics associated with that particular animal.

He is a warrior in a Kiowa myth.

one who can communicate with spirits..

A shaman is a member of certain tribal societies who acts as a medium between the visible world and an invisible spirit world and who practices magic or sorcery for purposes of healing, divination, and control over natural events.

In American Eskimo myths the mysterious Pinga, 'the one on high' is the guardian of game, the controller of the hunt, and the protectress of the living.

The Illini tribe believed in the spirit world as a religion.

Mississippi tribes such as the Choctaw prayed to the Sun but believed in one Creator who created all.

First of all, almost no tribe ever wore headbands unless it was just to hold their hair back when it got in the way. Therefore, no one wore feathers in their head bands. Some did, however, wear feathers in their hair. How many feathers was not as important as how they were worn, usually down and or out to the side

There is a myth that American Indians believe that when a dog has two different eye colors they can see or be close to both the physical and spiritual world. However, there is no documentation of this belief, and in fact, it is thought to be a non-native story made up to romanticize the Indian.

The god of creation of the Tongva people, a Native American tribe in Southern California. or in Astronomy it is a kuiper belt object but idk where it came from.

1. Hinduism is not only in India but also in Nepal. Well, throught the ancient history, many gods were from Nepal too. Like Sita fom Ramayan. And the Pashupatinath temple. Hinduism has got lots of gods because the many gods were born in India and Nepal.

2.Because Hindu gods did many incarnations in order to save the earth from demons. Like Lord vishnu re incarnated as Buddha,ram,Krishna and many more gods. so that's the reason why Hinduism has many gods because a single god incarnated many times. :)

spiritualism- everything had a spirit

big house- delaware still have this, similar to midewiwin of the ojibwe

some ceremonies included

deer sacrifice

green corn ceremony

doll ceremony

The Powhatan's Animal Spirit was the Great Hare.

The Mound Builders is a general term that covers several sequential cultures that built mounds. First were the Red Ochre and Glacier Kame peoples, who lived in Ohio as long ago as 8000-5000 B.C. I believe. The Adena culture was also a mound-building people, from about 800 B.C. to perhaps 100 A.D. The Hopewell people intermingled peacefully with the Adena, and continued (and elaborated upon) their moundbuilding ways; Hopewell was from 100 B.C. to about 400-500 A.D. Then, the Fort Ancient people, from around 900 A.D. up until about 1500 A.D., but their earthworks were ceremonial rather than for burials. The Shawnee are generally believed to be the descendents of the Fort Ancient, and there is some decent DNA evidence (google for Lisa Mill's dissertation at Ohio State, for example) that the Adena are descendents of the Glacier Kame and Red Ochre peoples, and the Hopewell of the Adena.

A Kachina, meaning spirit-father is a supernatural being who represents and has control over the natural world.

good and evil.

Some of the native American good luck charms includes the ruby, the labis, and the opal. Some of these good luck symbols and good luck charms were used in some sort of celebration.