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American Indian Religious Freedom Act
The special nature of native american religions has frequently resultedin conflicts between federal laws and policies and religious freedom.
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Extractions: American Indian Religious Freedom and Native American Graves Repatriation and Protection Acts Purpose and Organization The American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) clarifies U.S. policy pertaining to the protection of Native Americans' religious freedom. The special nature of Native American religions has frequently resulted in conflicts between federal laws and policies and religious freedom. Some federal laws, such as those protecting wilderness areas or endangered species, have inadvertently given rise to problems such as denial of access to sacred sites or prohibitions on possession of animal-derived sacred objects by Native Americans. AIRFA, passed in 1978, acknowledged prior infringement on the right of freedom of religion for Native Americans. Furthermore, it stated in a clear, comprehensive, and consistent fashion the federal policy that laws passed for other purposes were not meant to restrict the rights of Native Americans. The act established a policy of protecting and preserving the inherent right of individual Native Americans (including American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Native Hawaiians) to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religions. AIRFA is primarily a policy statement. Approximately half of the brief statute is devoted to Congressional findings. Following the Congressional findings, the act makes a general policy statement regarding American Indian religious freedom:
University Of Arizona Press - Becoming And Remaining A People
Becoming and Remaining a People native american religions on the NorthernPlains Howard L. Harrod. 149 pp. / 6 x 9 / 1995 (2nd ptg
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/books/BID942.htm

Extractions: Cloth (0-8165-1583-2) $31.95s Great Plains Quarterly The power of religion to preserve individual and group identity is perhaps nowhere more evident than among Native American peoples. In Becoming and Remaining a People , Howard Harrod shows how the oral traditions and ritual practices of Northern Plains Indians developed, how they were transformed at critical points in their history, and how they provided them with crucial means of establishing and maintaining their respective identities. This book offers a bold new interpretation of anthropological studies, demonstrating how religious traditions and ritual processes became sources of group and individual identity for many people. Harrod reconstructs the long religious development of two village peoples, the Mandans and the Hidatsas, describing how their oral traditions enabled them to reinterpret their experiences as circumstances changed. He then shows how these and other groups on the Northern Plains remained distinct peoples in the face of increased interactions with Euro-Americans, other Indians,.and the new religion of Christianity. Harrod proposes that other interpretations of culture change may fail to come to terms with the role that religion plays in motivating both cultural conservatism and social change. For Northern Plains peoples, religion was at the heart of social identity and thus resisted change, but religion was also the source of creative reinterpretation, which produced culture change. Viewed from within the group, such change often seemed natural and was understood as an elaboration of traditions having roots in a deeper shared past. In addition to demonstrating religious continuity and change among the Mandans and the Hidatsas, he also describes instances of religious and social transformation among the peoples who became the Crows and the Cheyennes.
Powwows - Native American Powwows - Powwows - American Indian
The Encyclopedia of native american religions A Comprehensive Guide to the SpiritualTraditions and Practices of North American Indians The Encyclopedia of
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Teaching About Native American Religions
Zurück! Teaching native american religions. 1. Should or should not EuropeanAmericans be teaching courses on native american religions?
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Extractions: The following is a series of discussions concerning the teaching of Indian religions outside of their own cultural context. Ron Grimes has also published an article on this topic in The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 20, Number 3 (1996), pages 433-450. The title of the article is: This May Be a Feud, But It Is Not a War: An Electronic, Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Teaching Native Religions From: Ron Grimes, U Colorado Boulder (at the time) I am submitting this query simultaneously to two electronic discussion groupsone on religious studies, the other on Native American issuesto invite reflection on three questions: 1. Should or should not European Americans be teaching courses on Native American religions? 2. If we should not, why not, and what would be the results of our deferral? 3. If we should, how best can we proceed? I am giving much thought these days to the question of cultural imperialism, especially in two of its forms, namely, religious and academic imperialism. While on leave, I have been asked by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to teach a very large, publicly visible introductory course on Native American religions.
Native American Religious Traditions
Texts Sam Gill, native american religions Ella Deloria, Waterlily Marla Powers,Oglala Women Clellan S. Ford, Smoke from Their Fires Aldona Jonaitis, ed
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Extractions: Leslie Marmo Silko, Ceremony Participation Students should complete the readings by the beginning of week for which the readings are assigned, to be prepared to discuss readings in class, and to contribute to the discussion. Your ideas are important. Participation and in-class work together make up 20% of the final grade. In-class work There are two components to in-class work: (a) reading notes, and (b) discussion questions based on the readings. These are due each Monday in class, and should be at least two but preferably not more than five pages long (typed). The reading notes should encapsulate the key points in the readings, include your questions in brackets, and the discussion questions should be provocative, stimulating, and useful. These will be graded, and students should bring two copies to class each Monday (one to hand in and one to keep for class use). (See Participation for grade component.)
Religion And Beliefs Of The American Indian
native american religions. Profile. Beyond the directly inherited traditionalnative american religions, a wide body of modified sects abounds.
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Extractions: Profile The diversity of American Indian tribes precludes a comprehensive examination of their religions and their belief systems. Anthropologists have compiled a huge trove of information detailing practices and beliefs of many different groups, this information remained isolated from popular culture. While there is a proliferation of popularized versions of Native American spirituality, there are often not the products of the tribes or their members. The beliefs and practices of many groups are sectarian derivatives of other native groups, the there is also a significant infusion of Christianity, and more recently, New Age beliefs and practices permeating these traditional beliefs. Beyond the directly inherited traditional Native American religions, a wide body of modified sects abounds. The Native American Church claims a membership of 250,000, which would constitute the largest of the Native America religious organizations. Though the church traces the sacramental use of the peyote cactus back ten thousand years, the Native American Church was only founded in 1918. Well into the reservation era, this organization was achieved with the help of a Smithsonian Institute anthropologist. The church incorporates generic Native American religious rites, Christianity, and the use of the peyote plant. The modern peyote ritual is comprised of four parts: praying, singing, eating peyote, and quietly contemplating (Smith, 167-173; Anderson, 41).
Encyclopedia Of Native American Religions (in MARION)
Encyclopedia of native american religions. Title Encyclopedia ofnative american religions an introduction / Arlene Hirschfelder
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MSU On-line Catalog - Native American Studies Courses
Basic elements of native american religions are defined from the perspective of thepractitioner's understanding of their contributions to distinct cosmologies
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Extractions: NAS 001 SELECTED ISSUES IN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT NAS 100SG INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES NAS 201SG AMERICAN INDIANS IN MONTANA NAS 220 AMERICAN INDIAN ART NAS 242SG AMERICAN INDIANS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY NAS 270 INDIVIDUAL PROBLEMS NAS 280 SPECIAL TOPICS NAS 289 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY INSTRUCTION NAS 290 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY NAS 305 GENDER ISSUES IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES NAS 315 NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE CINEMA NAS 320HG AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIONS NAS 325 NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS NAS 330 AMERICAN INDIAN POLICY AND LAW NAS 340HG AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE NAS 400 SEMINAR NAS 430 AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION NAS 470 INDIVIDUAL PROBLEMS NAS 476 INTERNSHIP NAS 480 SPECIAL TOPICS NAS 489 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY INSTRUCTION NAS 490 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH/CREATIVE ACTIVITY NAS 500 SEMINAR NAS 520 FEMINIST AND GENDER THEORIES IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES NAS 521 TRIBAL GOVERNMENT: YESTERDAY AND TODAY NAS 523 NAS 525 INDIGENOUS PHILOSOPHIES OF SACRED ECOLOGIES NAS 530 FEDERAL INDIAN LAW AND POLICY NAS 540 THEORETICAL POSITIONS IN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES NAS 541 A CRITICAL APPROACH TO NAS METHODOLOGIES NAS 570 INDIVIDUAL PROBLEMS NAS 575 PROFESSIONAL PAPER NAS 576 INTERNSHIP NAS 580 SPECIAL TOPICS NAS 590 MASTER'S THESIS NAS 001 SELECTED ISSUES IN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
CWNews: Military Allows Hallucinogen Drug For Native American Religions
The story on this page is Military Allows Hallucinogen Drug For Native AmericanReligions. Military Allows Hallucinogen Drug For native american religions
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Extractions: Military Allows Hallucinogen Drug For Native American Religions WASHINGTON, DC (CWN) - The US Military announced on Tuesday that Native American soldiers will be allowed to use the hallucinogenic plant peyote in religious ceremonies under new guidelines. The 1994 American Indian Religious Freedom Act allowed Indians to use peyote as a religious sacrament, in the same way that Catholics are allowed to use sacramental wine in places where wine would not normally be allowed. Peyote is a small cactus with psychedelic properties that grows naturally in southern Texas. While it's illegal for most people, federal law permits peyote use by the 250,000 members of the Native American Church. The new policy applies to the 9,262 American Indians in the military service. Only enrolled members of Indian tribes may use peyote, the guidelines say. It may not be used, possessed, or brought aboard military vehicles, vessels, aircraft, or onto military installations without permission of the installation commander. News Stories for April 1997
Reading Room - Native American Healing, Shamanism, The Maya And Aztecs, Native A
The Encyclopedia of native american religions A Comprehensive Guide tothe Spiritual Traditions and Practices of North American Indians.
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Extractions: Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality The Raven Steals the Light Native America: Native American Tales Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands: Sacred Myths, Dreams, Visions, Speeches, Healing Formulas, Rituals, and Ceremonials ... Songs of the Wolf Search for your favorite books Keyword Title Author incense
Native American Studies - American Indian Resources - Academic Info
A directory of Internet resources on native american Studies. Academic Info. native american Studies. Area Country Studies native american Studies Tribal Local Histories. Art Culture. religions Spirituality. Law Government
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native american, mythology, Earth religions and other information.
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Extractions: Thorgaud's Pad Home of Native American, Environmental, Crystals, Alt. Medicine, Earth Religions, Mythological, and other similar site links. I dedicate this page to all those like me who quest to become the best person they can be. Also to assist those still searching for who they really are. I hope I can give those souls some insight and resources to search further into themselves to discover that "hidden" self. This is also for those who simply want to learn. I have included fun sites, and serious sites. I hope you enjoy your visit. If there is anything relative I've missed that you would like to see, E-mail me to let me know! My Favorite Links Prejudice still abounds in this day and age. In American history, it was the Native American who took the worst blow. Here is a peaceful people who saved the pilgrims from starvation by feeding them and showing them how to farm and identify edible plants. Less than a century later, how were they thanked for life? By slaughter, and then telling them where they could and could not live, what they could and could not do. I heard a comedian once say, during his routine, "Yeah, just shoot them Indians! They were trespassing on our land before we ever got here." Savages they were called. Why? Because they fought to protect Mother Earth and their homes? Just as anyone else would protect their home. And the Native American was called uncivilized and savage! Their beliefs were merely different than the pilgrims and those who followed them to this land.
The Difference Between Wicca, Witchcraft, New Age, And American Indian Religions
Article from a prominent Wiccan organization explaining the differences between paganism, new age, and native american spirituality.
http://www.medeaschariot.com/wicca/white.htm
Native American Religion In Early America - The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centu
Historical essays aimed at educators, with pictures and links.Category Society Religion and Spirituality native american spectrum of results, ranging from native peoples' accepting at revitalizing traditionalIndian religions and, in their resistance to Euroamerican efforts at
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Extractions: Teaching about Native American religion is a challenging task to tackle with students at any level, if only because the Indian systems of belief and ritual were as legion as the tribes inhabiting North America. So let's begin by trimming down that bewildering variety to manageable proportions with three glittering generalizations (which might, with luck, prove more useful than misleading). First, at the time of European contact, all but the simplest indigenous cultures in North America had developed coherent religious systems that included cosmologiescreation myths, transmitted orally from one generation to the next, which purported to explain how those societies had come into being. Second, most native peoples worshiped an all-powerful, all-knowing Creator or "Master Spirit" (a being that assumed a variety of forms and both genders). They also venerated or placated a host of lesser supernatural entities, including an evil god who dealt out disaster, suffering, and death. Third and finally, the members of most tribes believed in the immortality of the human soul and an afterlife, the main feature of which was the abundance of every good thing that made earthly life secure and pleasant.
American Religions
in american religions has sections on regional, ethnic, women's studies Guide designedto help high school teachers of american history give native americans.
http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/america.html

Extractions: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY RELIGION DEPARTMENT Home Academic Sites American Studies Ancient Near East ... What's New? Note: Some texts are buried deep in e-archives. If title link does not work, click source. General Resources The American Religious Experience Critically acclaimed project for publication of electronic mss. in American religions has sections on regional ethnic women 's studies, American religious history Journal of Southern Religion (Briane Turley, West Virginia U). Teacher Serve Native Americans General Index of Native American Resources on the Internet Karen Strom's comprehensive catalog of websites includes indices devoted to culture history archaeology Native American Anthology This chapter of Richard Hooker's collaborative World Cultures Anthology includes native American stories of creation , the origin of death Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments of 1994 Native American Indian Resources Paula Giese's award-winning graphic rich meta-site provides more than 300 web pages linked to 500+ websites of north American indigenous peoples ( Native Nations ), with extensive
AAR Syllabi Project: Religions Of Native American Peoples (Paper)
religions of native american Peoples First, we will examine representative nativeamerican religions prior to contact with European and Euroamerican culture.
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Extractions: jpaper@yorku.ca Institution York University PLEASE NOTE: I have not offered this course for several years, due to released time for course development projects. On my next offering, I would update both the reading lists, with more focus on Native authors, as well as films. Description Introduction to the study of non-Western religions, analyzing primal cultures and early civilizations using Amerindian examples, considering traditional (Ojibwa to Inca) and contemporary (American Indian Movement, Peyote Religion) phenomena and their interrelationships with Western religion. Canadian examples will predominate. The course will be divided into three parts. First, we will examine representative Native American religions prior to contact with European and Euro-American culture. In the second part, we will consider the effects on these religions of domination by the colonial powers. Finally, we will focus on responses to these deleterious effects, including the contemporary revitalization of Native religions. Course Requirements 10%: Class participation (including preparation for discussion as well as meaningful participation in discussion).
All Sides Of The Story
native american Spiritualities. What do we mean when we speak of native americanreligion? Unlike Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, it has no single founder.
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Ethnic Or Tribal Religions North America Religion Native American Religions Sam
Ethnic or tribal religions North America Religion native Americanreligions Sam D Gill. Ethnic or tribal religions North America
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URI
Home religions Traditions native american.About URI. News Events. Peacebuilding. Youth.
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