Indigenous Religons

Question 1

American Indian religious freedom act (1978)

Answer 1

U.S. law to guarantee freedom of religious practice for native Americans

Question 2

Axis mundi

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Black Elk

Answer 3

Famous Lakota religious leader

Question 4

Changing Woman

Answer 4

Mythic ancestor of the Navajo people who created the first humans

Question 5

Chantway

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Ghost Dance

Answer 6

Religious resistance movements in 1870 and 1890 that originated in Nevada among Paiute peoples

Question 7

Hogan

Answer 7

A sacred structure of pueblo peoples

Question 8

Holy People

Answer 8

Ancestors to the Navajo people described in mythic narratives

Question 9

Holy wind

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Jump Dance

Answer 10

Renewal dance of the Yurok people

Question 11

Kachina

Answer 11

Pueblo spiritual beings

Question 12

Kinaalda

Answer 12

Rite of passage for young Navajo women

Question 13

McKay Mabel

Answer 13

Pomo woman well known for healing and basket weaving

Question 14

Native American Church

Answer 14

Founded in the twentieth century based on peyote religion

Question 15

Peyote

Answer 15

Hallucinogenic cactus used in many Native American religions

Question 16

Popol Vuh

Answer 16

Quiché Mayan, “council book”, The Quiché Mayan Book of Creation

Question 17

Quannah Parker

Answer 17

Comanche man who called for the embrace of peyote religion

Question 18

Quetzalcoatl

Answer 18

Aztec God and important culture hero in Mexico

Question 19

Rites of passage

Answer 19

Rituals that mark the transition from one social stage to another

Question 20

Rites of renewal

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Sand painting

Answer 21

Paintings of sand used by Navajo healers to treat ailments

Question 22

Sun Dance

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Sweat lodge

Answer 23

Structure built for ritually cleansing and purifying the body

Question 24

Tipi

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Two Spirit

Answer 25

Additional gender identity in many Native American cultures thought to have special spiritual powers

Question 26

Trickster

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Vision Quest

Answer 27

Ritual attempt by an individual to communicate with the spiritual world

Question 28

Wovoka

Answer 28

A Paiute man whose visions started the ghost dance of the 1890