Indeginous Traditions Flashcards
What is Missionizing?
Spreading one’s own religion with the goal of converting people to the religion.
What is colonization?
Subjaugating a group of people from one territory to another.
What is cosmological?
The branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe, with its parts, elements, and laws, and especially with such characteristics as space, time causality, and freedom.
What is generosity?
Generosity is important because one never knows when you will need the help of others. The admonition to always be generous, whenever and wherever, is to share what you have been given or earned, and you will always relations upon whom you can call. Giving away is good.
What is wisdom?
Much more than simple possessing knowledge. If person has excelled in adhering to the other three values, and learning from the experience of age and the maturity the accrues allows an amount of wisdom to accumulate. What becomes clear is that benefits will result from anyone living an active, balanced, and fruitful spiritual regime. Often young forget how much their elders know. Wisdom is not something to be venerated, rather the wisdom of individuals whatever their sources of understanding may be, become a community resource to he consulted and madde accessible to people, foremost and always. The obvious interconnectedness of these values lead to other, but for Lakota these are paramount.
What is bravery?
Bravery was embodied in the act of counting coup, touching the enemy without in turn being touched. This could be done with a special staff (often called coup stick) or a weapon; and it has to be witnessed by a fellow warrior. While in warfare many of the enemy as well as many fellow warriors were sometimes killed, the defense of one’s own people from danger and threats to their existence was a venue for individuals to demonstrate their bravery.
What is fortitude?
Fortitude is the fundamental capacity to endure pain and hardship. Whether the rigors of Sundance, the heat of the sweat lodge, or the cold of the winter, the demands upon individuals are significant contingencies, testing the fortitude of individuals. Combined with the wounds of warfare, either from traditional weapons or guns, or the possible injuries from hunting buffalo, the individual persists with dignity and reserve, especially not displaying emotion to strangers.
What is naming?
For many indeginous people, the experience of being given their names has been traumatic and troubling. Many names for individuals are the product of colonization processes-missionization or assimilation education, but clearly has political products. These are often called their whitemen’s names. Names in indeginous are considered real and authentic and are given through ceremonies and are considered to be the way in which the creator and spirits would know the person.the names recieves in these contexts is perceived as both a protection and open special line of communication for the person.
What is Sacred Ecology?
When living in nature, persons and their communities were filled with appreciation, realizing the perception that most everything is animate, made to move and inhabited with various degrees of energy. Living in harmony with the world and everything in it. The sacred ecology underpinned a moral and spiritual orientation for human beings, who in the order of their world, based upon their circumspection grounded in their previous experiences, humans were often inferiors to other beings in the world, ranking themselves lower in the order.
What is the White Buffalo Calf Woman?
2 hunters cam across a women in prairies in fine clothe with a bundle. One man had lustful though and wind turned him to bones. One was respectful and took her to camp where she turned to a white buffalo calf and gave the white buffalo calf pipe before leaving.
What is a sweat lodge?
Pollution can come in many forms and impurities are everywhere in the world, soiling individuals and their relations, either from intentional or even unintentional actions. This pollution can be eliminated physically from steam. Purification happens. Rocks in the center representing Grandmother earth, who gives life to everything. The rocks represent the indestructable and everlasting nature of Wakan Tanka. The fire which is used to heat the rocks represents his great power. The centered round fire pit represents the center of the universe, a symbolic dwelling place of Wakan Tanaka
What is Sundance?
Among Plains Indians is an ancient ceremony this is among the most sacred. The ceremony is done when there has been a request for it and there is someone who will act as a sponsor for it. Lakota called it wiwanyag wachipa “dance looking at the sun”. Patricipants fast. The end of the ceremony when all the prayers are taken to the creator by the Thunderbirds, the sign they have been received is rain. They give prayers and thanks giving and have a piece pipe ceremony. Each dancer makes vow just as sponsor of the lodge.
Who is Wakan tanka?
A composite of all powers in the universe.
Qhat is wakan?
Something that is hard to understand.
What is a shaman?
Shamans were those who served as a gatekeeper for believers, providing access to the spirits and the universe they inhabit. These individuals carry ceremonies and have healing and divination capabilities.
