Compare And Contrast Native American Religions

The indigenous tribes of North America have much in common with the indigenous religions of Africa but there are also many differences in the belief of an afterlife, supreme deity, and the daily practices of each. Today many of these lesser known religions are hardly ever studied but they exist and are still practiced all over North America and Africa. We will discuss how these religions differ in their main beliefs and practices, and we will also discuss how they correlate with one another on smaller aspects.

There’s tons of debate between which creation story is true. Some people say that the Adam and Eve creation story is true. Others truly think the Native American one is correct. But nobody alive today, has any idea which one is true, probably no one ever will. However, both Native American and Creation stories are similar in many ways. Both stories are different also.

When most western people think about Native American or African religions there is a certain stigma that comes with the topic. This is in part because there is a lot of misinformation in the world about Native American and African religions. When most westerners think of African religions they think of voodoo and black magic. Likewise, the view of Native American religions is still looked at through the lens of the pilgrims who wrote about Native Americans as being savages and less than human. These stereotypes were all formed from a lack of accurate information. African and Native American religions are very similar. It is difficult to find a lot of accurate information on African and Native American indigenous religions because of the lack of written history but there is a lot of oral history that has been passed down from generation to generation. From this information, it is clear that Native American and African religions have many more similarities than they do differences. Three of these similarities will be discussed in this paper. The first topic of discussion is the similarity between African and Native American people when it comes to their perception of the spirit world. Following this topic are the similarities between Native American and African views on the afterlife and finally, the diversity of beliefs within African and Native American religions.

Compare and contrast the purposes and cultures of the Native Americans and the French in the Illinois Country. Be sure to include the following terms: Illinois Prairie, Cahokia, “corn, beans, and squash,” Marquette and Joliet, voyager, and Kaskaskia.

The writings of Columbus and Bradford and the Cherokee Creation Myth each gives a glimpse into the beliefs, attitudes, values and shared patterns of behaviors that form the cultures of the Native Americans, Imperialists and Pilgrims. Interestingly, their cultures overlap and blend. Some key Native American religious beliefs resembled those of the Imperialist and Pilgrims. For instance, the Creation Myth of the Cherokees depicts a Creator God and describes an afterlife. There is also evidence that in each of the cultures there was reliance on the providence of God.

The Ten Commandments to some may not be important but to the Christian and Native American religion it plays a key role in their beliefs as beings on the earth. They both believe in a greater god, and being honest, but also differ in how the rules are written. For example, the Native American Commandments say to “be honest,” while the Christian Commandments states, “thou shalt not lie.” With all the different religions in the world, these two have found themselves relatable.

If this knowledge is not reaching western citizens through the Christianity, it will be necessary to find it somewhere else. While traditional religions almost always can offer a cosmology that connects man and nature, Native American spirituality may be very accessible to a society that is increasingly interested in environmental concerns but does not have a firm and direct qualitative relationship with the natural world.

The religion of Native Americans varied depending on the tribe they were affiliated with so it is difficult to generalize the religion to a specific doctrine. However, when Europeans first began colonizing in the west, the religious systems of the culture included cosmologies, the idea of an all-knowing and powerful creator, as well as the immortality of the human soul. These ideas made relating Christianity to the Natives easier for evangelists at the time. There were many factors that made evangelizing difficult as well. For example, the belief that even non-human specimens had souls and needed to be accounted for was not understood nor explained in Christianity. Also, the language barrier could make conversion challenging due to the fact

There are similarities and differences between different beliefs. For example, in the Roman catholic faith earth was created by God while in the Lakota it was the Great Spirit. The differences between the Roman Catholic and the Lakotas creation story how the world was created, how men were created, and flood.

While there are many different religions that belong to the many cultures of the natives, there is some common ground. Native Americans passed down myths and traditions verbally. They believed in spiritual connections and symbolism to represent their deities.(Heyrman, 2008) When the European settlers arrived in America, they attempted to convert the Native Americans to Christianity. The success of conversion varied based on the native people, but it had the same effect overall.

Native Americans and European people have been around on Earth for the last couple hundred years with spiritual and civic traditions following them. A famous spiritual tradition was spiritual stories, such as who was the creator of the Earth. Civic documents are present in present day such as the Constitution of the United States or the Iroquois Constitution. They did share similarities such as in each spiritual story Earth started as water but differences such as religion based constitutions versus non religion based constitutions also existed.

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The Indian systems were belief as this tribes inhabiting north america. Native peoples worshiped all-powerful, all-knowing Creator or “Master Spirit”. The Indians believed in the human soul and an afterlife. The really did have different beliefs in every tribes. Indian societies of North America had each tribe had their own religious.

After reading the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and watching the movie “Smoke Symbols” you can see that the characters Rowdy and Victor are very similar just like Thomas and Arnold/Junior. In the book there were a lot of drawings of Junior and he was drawn like a nerd, just like Thomas showed in the movie. Also in the movie Victor was shown like a tough athlete that wasn’t afraid of anything, just like Rowdy in the book. In the book Rowdy was the one who protected Junior from everyone and he also liked to play basketball like Victor in the movie. Thomas in the other hand was shown more like a weak scared Indian in the movie and Junior was also a very scared Indian and the book because he always used to vomit of nerves

To understand why they celebrate, you have to look into their past to see who they are, where they've been. To see what it's like dancing in moccasins. Each nation has a different story, but you might find that collectively, they celebrate the preservation of a way of life as much as life itself. To make sense of that, Channel Nine, Harmony Alliance, KCP&L, the Anti-Defamation League, McDonald's, and IBM went to the Kickapoo Reservation to talk to Paul Guiseppe, a tribal elder who is well respected because he has seen a lot. Stated, “at one time, this whole continent, the United States, was our country. It was taken away from us. We was forced to go on. Like my people, they had come from round the Great Lakes. And when we were one nation, one tongue