Invitation to world Religions ch 2 – Flashcards

In 1978 US law to guarantee freedim of religious practices for native Americsns

An academic term for the center of the world, which connects the earth with the heavens

Famous Lakota religious leader

Mythic ancestor of the Navajo people who created the first humans

The basis of Navajo ceremonial practice; includes chants, prayers, songs, and other ritual practices

Religious resistance movements in 1870 and 1890 that originated in Nevada among Paiute peoples; used to protest to push back at colonialization

A sacred structure of Pueblo peoples

Ancestors to the Navajo people, described in mythic narratives

Navajo conception of a spiritual force that inhabits every element of creation

Renewal dance of Yurok people

Pueblo spiritual beingd

Rite of passage for young Navajo women

A Pomo woman who was well known as healer and basket weaver

A church founded in early twentieth century based on Peyote Religion

Hallucinogenic cactus used in many Native American religions

The Quiche Mayan book of crration

Comanche man who called for embrace of Peyote religion

Aztec God and important culture hero in Mexico

Rituals that mark the transition from one social stage to another

Rituals that seek to enhance natural processes, like rain or fertility, or enhance the solidarity of the group

A painting made with sand used by Navajo healers to treat ailments

Midsummer ritual common to many Native American religions ; details vary across cultures

A structure built for ritually cleansing and purifying the body

A typical conical structure of the tribes of the Great Plains which is often constructed with a sacred blueprint

A common figure in North American mythologies; trickster tales often teach important moral lessons

A ritual attempt by an individual to communicate with the spirit world

A Pauite man whose visions started the Ghost Dance of 1890

no such peoples as america indian
gives impression when europeans arrived – everyone beonged to one lg group and all are of the same culture

did try to organize all groups into one “Indian Nation” but did not work. Wanted to organize to fight off european settlers

at least not a formal doctrine; but there were teachings and beliefs. They had more emphasis on myth ritual and symbol
huge emphasis on balance and harmony

answered Where did we come from? How did we get here? also answer questions about death.
Superhuman beings had relationship with Gods, different than we had

spiritual force; enter living being thru breath; direct thoughts

the gods “pre-existed at some point; there is a link between human and gods

trickster – a raven in northwest; we learn a moral of the story; tend to define reality

can be oversold, but did have sense of themselves in charge of existence ; they depended on farming and corn

in western – we have dominion over the world and the world has been given to us. we are created in the image of God; we have laws that protect human life yet no set laws to protect animals

Indegionous – mountains to reach heaven but unable to reach top, trees, rivers, dwellings
Western Society sacred places and spaces – church, synogague, mosques, because the holdy dwells there. Hold memory that uphold value that we value

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but we have fewer because science and technology have pushed them aside

smashed them, industrialization is the unstoppable force
chrisitanity and indigenous religion mix – many switched to christianity

time is cyclical – everything works in this way – birth, planting, harvest, death ; their world revolved around the cycle of the sun

they do not have access to scientific healing

make world seem real. indig. indians – had rituals to become rulers, to become warrior

ritual at birth, ritual at confirmation, ritual at graduation

the world is socially-constructed through a complex of interactions.