Indigenous Religions

Question 1

Themes of Native religions

Answer 1

Land based, rituals and chantways

Question 2

Are indigenous religions diverse?

Answer 2

Yes very!

Question 3

A common ritual where native dances dance attached to a tree (axis mundi) for 4 days under hard conditions

Answer 3

Sundance

Question 4

Experiential, going somewhere solitary in nature to have visions to answer questions
-peyote helps

Answer 4

Vision Quest

Question 5

Enhances visions, purification of self

Answer 5

Sweat Lodge

Question 6

Prayers on cloth, wind carries them away

Answer 6

Prayer cloths and bundles

Question 7

Large celebration of culture with lots of dancing

Answer 7

Pow Wow

Question 8

Intermediaries, ritual specialist, healers
-Usually double spirit

Answer 8

Shaman

Question 9

Double Spirit

Answer 9

Transgender, taking on qualities of another gender

Question 10

Role in the universe, distant creator, spirits and ancestors, nature

Answer 10

Cosmology

Question 11

Spread religion, claim land, overtake communities

Answer 11

Colonialism and missionaries

Question 12

Document that establishes “doctrine of descovery”

Answer 12

Inter caetera

Question 13

What was the inter caetera (Doctrine of discovery)

Answer 13

Legal to overthrow lands and bring natives to Catholicism
Built into foundation of U.S
Banning of Native practices like the Ghost Dance

Question 14

Johnson v M’intosh

Answer 14

Native had the deed to the land, but because they weren’t catholic Doctrine of Discovery won

Question 15

A social movement among all native tribes in efforts to stop colonialism, ended in a massacre at Wounded Knee

Wovoka started movement

Answer 15

Ghost Dance

Question 16

An effort to be able to use _____ by taking on a more Christian style church system

Answer 16

Peyote
Native American Church

Question 17

1990 employment V. Smith

Answer 17

Smith got fired for failing a drug test by using peyote in a religious manner. In favor of employment.

Question 18

1993 Religious Freedom Act

Answer 18

“ensures that interests in religious freedom are protected.”

Question 19

time is regarded as circular, not linear. Thus, events that happened at one point on the circle of time are not simply past; they will be experienced again.

Answer 19

Cyclical Time

Question 20

Ancestral Spirits

may take the form of animals, plants, or humans, represent the spiritually perfect beings that humans become after they die

Answer 20

Kachinas

Question 21

often an animal who has adventures and engages in all manner of mischief. In many myths, the trickster suffers repercussions because of his failure to follow established rules about social behavior

Answer 21

Trickster

Question 22

a famous Lakota religious leader

Talks about the interconnectedness of all things

Answer 22

Black ELk

Question 23

ritualized singing and chants and may take place over several days.

Stories of creation

Answer 23

Chantways

Question 24

God depicted as a feathered serpent, was thought to possess the sacred power of creation

Answer 24

Quetzalcoatl

Question 25

mark the transition from childhood to adulthood.

Answer 25

Rites of passage

Kinaalda, It takes place soon after a girl begins menstruating.