Native American Dance Rituals

Throughout history, religions have diverse impacts on humanity. As a part of society, people have lots of types of relationships with each other. As the most popular ideology in ancient world, religions lead not only how people think about the physical nature. They have also affected to how people relate to each other through different rituals and rules. The hunka ceremony of Lakota is one of the rituals, which builds a special kind of relationship between some people who were in the ceremony. So how hunka affect to people who participated it? How is the ceremony similar from the sacrament of marriage and some other ceremony?

In this paper, we will discuss the different death rituals performed in different cultures. We view death rituals from Native Americans, Africans, those of the Chinese decent, and endocannibalism from the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea. Death is universal to all people in every culture. Responses to how one deals with death and dying differ greatly. Death rituals are usually based on beliefs. This can come from religion, history, language, and art.

The most interesting part that I found was the dancing part. The Native Indian are always good at express their emotion through the dancing. Every tribe has they own way to express the reverence for natural, the delight of hunting and the desire of victory. These wonderful conversations between the Manitou and people, has formed the special art in the Native American. Certainly, there are music accompany with dances, and the instrument are contain spiritual symbol as well. For instance, drum plays an important role in the Powwow. The article “Without the drum, there would be no Powwow” mention that “ Our drum has character, we have that powwow spirit, and people dance.” Drum is not only represent the core of Native people faith, but also is the heartbeat of the creator. Powwow drum are often make by circle, because circle stands for lifecycle. People surrounding and beat the drum, like the life turning and returning.

Culture is one of the most important parts of the life as spirituality. Native American, people practice many different ceremonies as a ritual, which represent their culture, such as, Sun Dance, healing ceremony, and Gallup ceremony, etc. The first ceremony that Native American celebrates the Sun Dance, which is also known as thanksgiving ceremony. This ceremony is like a vision dance. It is a ritual in which people stare at the sun, until everything blackout or spirit break in (Lecture notes). The other ceremony is Gallup ceremony, which is one of the major celebrations that Indian-Tribe celebrates. According to the text, “The Gallup Ceremonial had been an annual event for a long time. It was good for the tourist, they liked to see Indians and Indian dances; they wanted a chance to buy Indian Jewelry and Navajo rugs. Every year it was organized by the white men there” (111). It demonstrates that, how the Native people celebrate their ceremonies every year, with all the respect to their culture. The last ceremony is healing ceremony. Healing ceremony is the ritual that a female Pomo Shaman conducts a ritual healing ceremony over the man’s body. She is performing the ancient doctoring to heal the man spiritually, in which she was dancing with a two sticks, chanting and rubbing her hand on the body (Lecture notes). As we compare, ancient and recent Native American cultures were almost the same because in the past, people celebrate the cultures with a very good sight to enjoy their rituals. Even though, now society has developed a lot, but values of traditions are not changed

The healing rituals in the Navajo tribes included the spiritual healing rituals, which are a type of medicine or cure, which is believed to be being assisted by the spirits (Vogel 338). The Native Americans believed so much in these rituals especially the Navajo were the most community that believed in the capacity of this spiritual ritual healing. These healing influenced by the medium, which was the medicine, operate whom known as Shaman who would perform these rituals and will be able to heal a sick person. This paper will focus mainly on the beliefs, ceremonies and ritual events that were believed by the Navajo one of the Native Indians to treat their patients. It also argues ways and methods the Navajo used for their

The major Native American patterns in North America seemed to be endurable, in the sense that they may have not been as technology advanced, but they were able to build their own civilization, cities, roadways and live off their agriculture.The Native Americans also must have been quick thinkers and problem solvers since western Indians were able to “perfect the techniques of desert farming” after migrating to the south & east after droughts ruined their living conditions. The Women would do most of the field work while the men would usually fish and hunt, which the Europeans found very uncivilized when they first arrived.

The story relates to how we seek perfection on our bodies. It demonstrates how people will perform extreme procedures to achieve perfection, and even after this they will still feel they are ugly and not perfect. The rituals performed by the Nacirema tribe may seem inhumane, but if compared to our current culture and the procedures people perform on their bodies there is no much difference. I viewed the things they did as bizarre, but on close analysis of our culture, I realized they are no different from the things we do to achieve bodily perfection. I believe that other people who look or read about the things we do think if them as been inhumane.

The Ghost Dance religion was an answer to the domination of Native Americans. It was an attempt to make culture and to find a way to improve poverty and disease, all the reservation life of the Native Americans. The Ghost Dance originated among the Paiute Indians in 1870. The tide of the movement came in 1889 with a Paiute shaman Wovoka. Wovoka had a vision during a sun eclipse. In this vision he saw the second coming of Christ and received warning about the evils of white man. The messianic religion promised an apocalypse that would destroy the white man and the white guy. The earth then would be returned to the Native Americans.

30 students from Ajou University visited the Native American Museum at last Thursday, July 30. Coordinated as part of the summer JHU-SAIS / Ajou Language Immersion program, we could know the history of U.S Native American by descendant. As the descendant of Native American, Kandra guided inspection. In the museum, we could know a lot of tribes, their flags, the history of Native American, and their remains.

However, this didn’t stop the Indigenous people from celebrating it. The circle dance is now seen as an expression of Indian militancy because of their desire to preserve their traditional ways. This religious ceremony was an attempt to reclaim their Aboriginal freedom (Lesser, 2009). The ceremony is still continued to be practiced today by some people as it has spread throughout other nations under different names. It’s now considered very important because it has given them hope and peace for a period of time in the past when they needed it

If doctors told that person is on last stage of life than most of family members usually want available their selves to cleanse and prepare the body. when death occurs in a family report to eldest family member, spouse, or parents; open and public emoting expected but varies. Attitudes toward organ donation. Continues to be taboo to donate organs or blood; exceptions for immediate family needs (may hasten own death if donor); some religious restrictions .

The elements used in this concert were videos of a timeline of African-American dances. This was very helpful because it allowed the audience to know what time period they were looking at for a certain dance. There were different varies of costumes. There were costumes from the tribes danes, spiritual dances, 1902' dances as dancers, and etc. The dancers did an excellent job with combine the costumes to the era and it actually looked like pieces from that era. The lighting was very good and it allowed for the mood to be seen in the dances as well. When a dance needed to evoke a spiritual mood, the lighting would evoke that mood by only allowing light on the dancer and no one else. If it needed a joyful feeling, all the lights were on showing

They tell stories of the Native American demographic changes throughout American history, and represent their strength through displacement. Dance has always been a way to unify tribe groups, through shared experience and participation. The Potawatomi which

To discover the basis of elementary religion, we must further dig into the totemic beliefs people once had to get to the point where we are today. However, to understand how our society was constructed. Australian tribes were generally the ones to believe in totemic but, they were not originally the first to find totemic beliefs. One of the first people to discover totem were the North American Indians. In fact, the civilization was more advanced in Indian tribes than of Australian cults. “The technology has become more developed, the people live in houses or tents and there are even fortified villages. The social density is greater, and centralization, which is altogether absent in Australia.” (Durkheim 93). The reason why North American Indians

I am a part of the dance tribe, the I need a watch tribe, the drama tribe, no ponytail tribe, I should probably learn to read and write in Chinese tribe, the sugar tribe, the fashion tribe, and the crazy tribe. I am a part of the dance tribe because I've been doing dance since I was 5-6 in China. It has been a part of my life for a very long time and I enjoy taking classes and performing dances. Currently, I am taking acro and technique because I want to focus on the fundamentals and not a specific style. The next tribe I'm in is the I need a watch tribe because I always ask people what time it is every 5 minutes and people get very annoyed. I am also in the drama tribe, for I love acting and drama. It is always fun for me