Native American Pipe Ceremony

The North American Otter Pipe is a stone pipe that was found in Mound City, Ohio, USA it is believed to have been made between a time of 200 BCE and 100 CE. (MacGregor, pg 235) The dimensions of the pipe are 5.1 centimeters for height, 10 centimeters for width and 3.3 centimeters for depth, It looks like a kazoo for the size and shape of it but it is made of a reddish stone it is like that of a modern pipe for the effect that has the small hole for the part where

”(250).The sacred pipe is considered a very sacred possession which represents their religion. It is in the heart of all their ceremonies and is sacred to Indians as the “holy bundle of arrows are to the Cheyennes”.(251).Everything is in that pipe and the Sundance represents the earth's connection and power with the universe which gives it the

A new rising issue is the North Dakota Access Pipeline v. Native American tribe, Standing Rock. The main reason for the pipeline is to transport crude oil through four states more safely than the current way of transporting it through 750 railroad cars daily. In the same fashion, the pipeline will convert the 750 carts to 470,000 barrels of crude oil traveling 1,172 miles a day. Under those circumstances, the line will start in Montana, traveling through North Dakota reaching Canada, then heading southeast to South Dakota and finishing up in Illinois. On the positive side, it will make 374.3 million gallons per day, resulting in giving America an economic boom. The pipeline project is predicted to be a $3.7 billion investment and producing

This transfer of the substance serves as a flow of energy from one being to another. The shaman is said to gain the power needed to call on the spirits through this process.

The native americans and other DAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline) opposers are filled with determination, distress, passion, and such resentment towards the pipeline project because it would run under and through ground that their ancestors knew as sacred and those beliefs are still very alive to this day. The pipeline is a 1,172 mile underground oil pipeline that will aid transporting oil through all 50 states in the USA; it was projected to go through sacred lands, reservations, and rivers. There are multifarious issues and concerns pertaining to project but some of the preeminent concerns are; historic preservation and sacred grounds becoming significantly damaged and irreparable, climate change and how it would just increase the production of CO2, and potential pipeline fractures and spills that would mutilate the crucial nearby farms and threaten contaminate for the water supply of thousands of people who depend on it.

In Eastern Algonquian religion they believed that there was a spiritual world that interacted constantly with the physical world.

The ritualistic practice of peyote and shamanism, are commonly linked, however in the case of the Mescalero Apache Tribe the use of peyote in shaman rites had anything but a transcendental effect which eventually lead to the abolishment of peyote from shamanistic ceremony. A lack of harmony

Most Cherokee villages were placed along rivers and streams, so they could farm the rich black soil. Their crops were made out of corn, bean, squash, pumpkin, sunflowers and tobacco. They also used what the land had to offer like edible roots, crab, apples, berries, cherries, grapes and different type of nuts.

The use of peyote is central to the Native American peyote religion. In Peyote Religion most formal ceremonies mix drumming, singing, prayer, and stories as a means of offering thanks and as a way of sharing this blessing with the Creator. Deeply meaningful and highly personalized inspirational revelation is often a very important part of the individual's experience. Participants in such peyote "meetings" often grow in empathy and in friendship with the people who have shared the peyote night with them. Lifelong associations are made in this way.

An artifact has been found that pushes the timeline of the arrival of Native Americans in North Carolina back 4,000 years.

Many dances and ceremonies were performed in order to honor harvests (Keyworth 37). Along with honoring harvests, environmental concerns were the basis for the majority of ritualistic practices and dances (Hill 37). As for religious ceremonies, they were held in “circular…semi-underground buildings” (Burke 8). One tribe specific to California, the Chumas, praised wooden posts that represented a certain power or entity as mentioned in Through Indian Eyes (Walker 272).“[T]he Deer Dance” was another spiritual dance performed to emphasize power, birth, and the deer as an animal itself (Hill 38). “[T]he Brush Dance,” “the Jump Dance,” and “the Feather Dance” were also performed according to The Encyclopedia of North American Indians (Birchfield

Mediterranean and Ottoman-style pipes are markedly different from their northern European counterparts, allowing for distinctions to be made between different pipe-making traditions. Pipe smoking, concerning tobacco in particular, was popular within the Balkans, and “evidence suggests that it may have been practiced as early as the end of the sixteenth century” (Batchvarov 3). Conversely, it has also been argued the English introduced tobacco smoking at the start of the seventeenth century (Batchvarov 3). Stub-stemmed or reed pipes were popular in this area, as the remains of many were found in harbors in the waters of Malta. This style of pipe is “commonly found in association with inhabited areas and trade routes across the Ottoman Empire” (Wood 315). Of these pipes originating from the Mediterranean that were discovered at a site in Dockyard Creek, Birgu, many had a keel joint between the bowl and shank, “a feature which begins in the late 17th-early 18th century” (Wood 317). Due to this feature, it is possible to roughly date these pipes, as they could not be from a time period

Ceremonies and rituals are critical to the Native American culture. This culture also considers these rituals as a part of their religion. When referring to religion it’s not the same as the way

A cultural event that I have attended in the past that has had a memorable affect on my life was a Native American Powwow. This event takes place every year, Thanksgiving weekend in Tucson, AZ. I arrived in the late afternoon, as the sun was going down. I remember seeing many different types of people, from tourists to the different Native American performers. The physical setting of this particular celebration was outside, and based around, one main circle. Drums were beating so loud, you could feel the pound inside your chest. Different activities were going on all around, such as dancers, vendors, and a huge variety of foods to choose from. The circular dancing arena is known as the arbor, this area is blessed before any of the events

For many tribes of Plains Indians whose bison-hunting culture flourished during the 18th and 19th centuries, the sun dance was the major communal religious ceremony . . . the rite celebrates renewal - the spiritual rebirth of participants and their relatives as well as the regeneration of the living earth with all its components . . . The ritual, involving sacrifice and supplication to insure harmony between all living beings, continues to be practiced by many contemporary native Americans. -Elizabeth Atwood LawrenceAs the most important ritual of the nomadic Plains Indians, the Sun Dance in itself presents many ideas, beliefs, and values of these cultures. Through its rich symbolism and complicated rituals we are able to catch a glimpse