A sage ceremony is great cleansing ritual and fairly simple to perform. You can purchase sage wands at your local or online occult supply stores and are fairly inexpensive. Light the end of a wand until it begins to smoke. Then walk the area of each room of your home starting and ending at the same point (doorway, etc.) in the manner similar to a church elder censing his altar. You may also want to check out your local book store for a ritual suited to your religious preferences as to how to prepare or how to pray during the ritual to fine tune it to your needs.

The spiritual world of the Iroquois included many beliefs and deities. The Great Spirit was one of the most important.

Native Americans had no concept or word for 'religion' until the Europeans got involved. What the white men saw as religion is a natural way of life for the Native American.

Only the Europeans felt the need to convert. Native Americans did not fight or kill over spiritual beliefs.

Spiritual beliefs were as varied as their tribes and sometimes even the clans within the tribes. Many tribes were monotheist (believing in one God), while some others believed in more than one. Most tribes celebrated the earth and all she had to give, including the animals.

==== people came forth onto the earth via a sipapu or hole in the ground near the Grand Canyon. ==== After analyzing the religious symbols found on rocks or pottery and the distribution of ceremonial structures, some archeologists now think that the Anasazi may have been influenced into leaving their homeland by the pull of a new religion. One possibility is the Kachina religion with its masks and dolls that still survive today. Unlike many of the secret organizations in the modern pueblos, the Kachina societies, in which spirits of dead ancestors acted as intermediaries to the gods, were open to everyone, so some archeologists think that this spirit of equality would have had an appeal to a civilization like the Anasazi's that was entering a dark age. Anthropologists studying 20th-century pueblos have found a mix of secret societies co-existing with the more recent Kachina religion. There are hunt societies, medicine societies and societies of sacred clowns. In addition, pueblos are often divided into two factions, called the summer and winter or the squash and turquoise people. Anthropologists are fairly sure that these new organizations were not imported by the Anasazi, but sprang up sometime after their arrival.

they belived that everything had a spirit such as living being and even rocks, plants, etc.

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The Chickasaw and Choctaw were once the same people before they split into two separate tribes. Traditionally they were Sun Worshipers. Today most are Christian.

The Native People of the Southwest are not one people. They have different languages, cultures, history and religion and philosophy. I understand that some schools teach about Native people by grouping them in geographic culture areas but this causes a confusion about the actual people. Just one example, the Navajo and the Hopi speak languages as different as Turkish and English. The Hopi live in villages and the Navajo live spread out in family groups. They both grow corn but the Navajo raised sheep. The Hopi have been in the area for a very long time, the Navajo are thought to have moved there about 900-1100 years ago. Their belief systems are very different.

I will discuss the Navajo a little because I know the most about them and lived there. The first thing is that the Navajo are not in the past, the traditional ceremonies are practiced today. There are a number of beings, sometimes translated as "gods". Changing Woman is one of the most important. Others are often translated as the Holy People. The are also the spiritual beings inside the four sacred mountains and two center mountains and many others. Almost any natural feature has spiritual beings inside, often they come in pairs and many times they are male and female. First Man and First Woman have important roles in the creation stories. Changing Woman's twin sons also have important roles.

The Navajo don't "worship" them. They have ceremonies and prayers that enlist the gods powers to bring and person, family, house, clan, and the world back into beauty and harmony. For the Navajo the central philsophical concept is Hózhǫ́ . Roughly, it means beauty and harmony, peace, balance, happiness and contentment, wholeness, goodness and health and dynamic symmetry. In Navajo thought all these concepts are tied together in one idea. It is also an every day word. You can say: I am Hózhǫ́" and it means "I am happy", it also means " I am in a state of beautiful balance.

K'e is also important. It means the proper interrelationships between family and clan and living things. This includes called the Holy People. Ceremonies include prayer, song, ritual movement, oral and mythic history, dance, herbs, sandpaintings and many other elements. The leader is like a preist. He must do the ceremony exactly as he learned it or it won't work or he even could get sick. He is called a hataałii, which translates as chanter or singer. The ceremonies last form one to nine days and most take place at least in part inside a hogan. There are about 60 ceremonial "chantways. Most hataałii have spent many years to learn tow or three. The Navajo traditional religion and philosophy is still actively practiced today on the Navajo nation which has 300,000 members.

The religion of the Yurok people was based on individual effort through ritual cleanliness and rituals including the entire tribe. In accordance to Es Curtis, author of The North American Indian, “Yurok religious practices are founded on the belief that ages ago the earth was inhabited by a race of prenaturals in human form.” The Yurok’s practice the annual World Renewal Ceremonies. The purpose of the rituals was to renew the world or “firm the earth”, as the tribe described it. This ritual included recitation of magical formulas, by repeating the words of an ancient spirit race and other acts. Most of these rituals were considered to have connection with medicine. Medicine included not only that which was administered to cure sickness, but anything; root, herb, stick, or bark that is used in formula form. This power was restricted to women, giving them prestige and a source of wealth.

The hoop of the traditional Dreamcatcher represents the circle of life.

Decorated with bits and pieces of everyday life and hung in the sleeping area the dreamcatcher has the power to catch one's dreams and filter out the bad one's only allowing the good dreams to pass through. These good dreams slide down the soft feather making no sound and often without the dreamer knowing they are there. The bad dreams do not know this way and are forever caught in the web.

1.) There is no such thing as a 'shamanism religion'. Shamanism is a type of tribal faith system. Similar terms in the context of categorisation are monotheism, polytheism, and animism. It is a kind of religion, not a specific religion.

2.) Stop reading books published by Llewellyn Publications. They will rot your mind.

they all died the end

Potlatch was a ceremonial establishment of status thru largess. It was less about fun and friendship than it was about political maneuverings between tribal clans. If you had a rival in the tribe, and you knew he was not as well off as you, you could throw a potlatch in which you give away enough material wealth that your rival would essentially be unable to match or better. That would cause him to lose status and influence in tribal affairs... OR, it would divert him from involvement in tribal affairs as he struggled to assemble a suitable counter to your potlatch. While some in modern society may throw a party to show off how well off they are, or make their friends feel obligated in some sense... the key difference is that you would never throw a party so all your friends could watch you , say, burn your brand new car, just to prove you could afford to burn your car. And neither would any of your friends respond by burning BOTH their cars, just to prove they were better off than you. Potlatches not only resulted in the exchange of valuables, but often escalated to the pure destruction of valuables in a cycle of one-ups-manship

Ever since the arrival of the Europeans, Europeans converted Native Americans to Christianity by force. That is why most Native Americans with religion are Christian though some maintain their original spiritual beliefs, and others are any other religion.

There was no "religion" of the Native American. Native America consisted and consists today of many, many different tribes and clans. Each had their own spirituality.

Fake Natives Americans who are actually White, tend to mis-represent Native Spirituality by lumping all the Native stereotypes together and making up fake religious ceremonies to make money.

I think some modern transcendentalists are the Dalai Lama, and uh... OH! Kurt Kawohl. Definately Kurt. :( Sorry, but that's all I know. To tell you the truth I want the answer to this question myself.

P.S.

Previous answerer... you spelled orgasm wrong.

lord rama, krishna, venkateswara, shiva, brahma, vishnu, ganesh,

godess lakshmi, parvathi, saraswathi, durga............ and so on.

they lived in up town new york.

(hod-o-nosh-o-neh) :D