Native American Rituals

The woodcut image reveals multiple taboos that the Europeans held as, it depicts, uncultured savages, in contrast their own culture. For instance, if you look at the picture, you will see human body parts tied and hung up. Now, this may seem irrelevant, but if you look at the way they are hung, you will notice that it is similar to the way Europeans’ hung their hams, when they hung them in the smoke for flavoring. Of course, cannibalism was a fear for Europeans as they arrived in the New World, but they made it a much bigger deal than it actually was. In the background of the image, there are also European ships making their way to land. This might signify Europeans

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 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.

This approach can be subdivided into cultural and social aspects that were affected by disease and conquest, and linguistically as impacted by the Spanish inferior influence of conversion. In the field of archaeology, these changes could be seen in pottery styles and technology, which was attributed to the influence made by the Europeans. The abandonment of sites and shifts in settlement patterns were associated with depopulation, which resulted from contact and diseases. The theory that most historians and archaeologist accept is the ethnohistorical approach because it clearly shows the historical archaeology of Native Americans depopulation and must be studied as a form of cultural change. The Spanish affected the native’s socially by kidnapping

It caused their premodern religious traditions to be lost when genocides occurred and their land was taken away. Their religions were also fading away due to assimilation because these tribes had to assimilate in order to live in this new world. Furthermore, many indigenous cultures held on to their beliefs as well as practicing the colonial culture, which is known as syncretism or the intertwining of

Native americans were peaceful people but can be very bloody people at times.They do spiritual practices of the indigenous peoples of the Americans.There is many relious like ghost dances,The earth lodge reliogoin,indian shaker religion,long house religon ,mexicayotl,waashat religon,and sun dance .All these reliouns are very important things they believe in .

The word culture is a set of shared beliefs, goals, values, attitudes, and practices that characterizes a particular group (powerpoint). The culture that I pick to write on today is the Native North Americans because they are very creative and unique. Native North Americans are among the most cultural diverses populations on earth, yet also among the most stereotyped by outsiders (Zimmerman, Larry. Native North Americans. Great Britain: Duncan Baird, 1996). The native people were characterized as ‘’noble savages,’’ whiles today’s environmentalist call them ‘’ the first ecologist’’. However the family structures of the Native North Americans is extended family because it included the mother and father, son and daughter, uncles and aunts, grandmother

Anthropologist studies the patterns in human behavior, thought, and emotions. It focuses on human culture-producing and culture-reproducing (Haviland, 2014). Professor Linton bought the Nacirema culture in the path of anthropologist twenty years ago. As cultures all around are devoted with economy, Nacirema’ culture concern is dealt with the human body, its appearance and health within the people. Miner Horace comes upon unique rituals done by the Nacirema culture in where we see that people in this culture go to the extreme to have satisfaction with their bodies.

The three main counterparts that make up Indigenous Religion are human relationship with nature, framing of sacred time and space and the respect for origins, gods, and ancestors (Malloy, n.d.). Natives hold nature in high regard. They believe that all living creatures and non living items such as rocks, soil, trees, etc all carry spirits and are treated as sacred (Molloy, n.d.).

In some remote parts of Australia, people still practice small ceremonies. These ceremonies are in the form of dancing or ritual actions like singing and chanting. The purpose of these ceremonies is to invoke the Ancestral Beings for a wealthy supply of rain and food within the area. Nevertheless, they also practice the ceremonies to exercise their beliefs. However, the most important rituals are the initiation ceremonies for young adults, burial practices, smoking ceremonies, and ceremonial meetings of Australian Aboriginal peoples.

There is a spiritual component regarding indigenous lands. This land “is very important for indigenous peoples, and the major centers for spirituality are located in indigenous territories.” Specifically in Guatemala, the indigenous rituals are performed in sacred places sometimes “to maintain a link to nature, for the use of land, for natural phenomena, as a way of thanksgiving for the produce received during a specific season, or generally for giving people the opportunity to live, that is, the gift of life.” We do not want to infringe on these precious rituals; thus, we must communicate with the Maya people to ensure we are not disrupting this sacred land. In addition to the spiritual component of the land, there is also the Mayan calendar

Alaska Native inherited traditions, languages, and customs from their ancestors. There are twenty languages indigenous to the State of Alaska. There has been important federal laws passed as well as important organizations created to fight for the Alaska Native people rights. A question that arises is whether the Alaska Natives are acculturated or assimilated? Acculturation is different in subtle ways from assimilation: acculturation is the process of learning and adapting to a new culture and assimilation is being absorbed into the new culture. Alaska Native peoples are acculturated with the power of education and they are also assimilated with the post-colonial history that they have undergone. Many factors lead to the development of identity, most Alaska Native develop awareness of themselves as being acculturated or assimilated based on their relation in time with education and with history.

To resolve these selection pressures, religion is composed of three major elements: the sacred, the supernatural, and rituals and beliefs about the supernatural. According to Turner, believing in the sacred, like objects and events that symbolize the supernatural, can be “a very powerful motivator of humans”. In fact, many times religion offers a system of values that provides guidelines to how one should act in order to be accepted into the after life. Rituals and beliefs about the supernatural vary within societies. Rituals can include anything from dancing, to singing, to praying, etc. and they serve to link the natural and supernatural worlds together. Turner states that such rituals can be calendrical or non-calendrical, where calendrical rituals are performed on a regular schedule, like mass, for example. The non-calendrical rituals are then performed on special occasions, like rites of passage. As stated, however, these vary widely across societies.

People all over the world have different rituals. A ritual is a repetitive act that symbolizes events that have taken place in the past. Many times it can be religious, but it can also be a ceremony having to do with social customs. Rituals are repeated yearly or every couple years, it is not a ritual if it is only done once and never again. A pilgrimage physically takes someone from one place to another, whereas a ritual could be performed in one spot depending on what it is. The first part of a pilgrimage is separation; in the article “Run for the Wall” the riders leave their homes to embark on their trip across the country. The second part is the liminal stage where riders