Lakota Indian: Vision Quest
For generations, the vision quest has been an extremely important part of Lakota life and ritual. Until recent times, all young men sought this experience, sometimes as young as 10 or 11 and never
The Native American Religion
Native American religion is hard to explain. This is because there were very many tribes the religious principles were passed down verbally.
Henry H. Spalding
Henry Harmon Spalding (1803 - 1874), and his wife Eliza Hart Spalding were prominent Presbyterian missionaries and educators working primarily with the Nez Perce in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The
Smohalla ~ Wanapum
Smohalla (Dreamer) (c. 1815 - 1895) Wanapum nineteenth-century dreamer-prophet associated with a revitalization movement among Native American people in the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia Plateau
Joseph Smith Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844) was the founding prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or Mormon Church). Members of the religion (Mormons) revere him as a prophet
Blue Horn (Native Diety)
Bluehorn (Hečoga) is an important and complex deity, at once a Waterspirit, Chief of the Buffalo, the blue sky, and "the red star" (the Evening Star
Religions of Fort Albany
The two main religions practiced in Fort Albany are Roman Catholicism and the old Native Traditions that have started to come back to Fort
Religion of Mi’kmaq
The Micmac recognized a Great Spirit called Manitou and even several lesser spirits, also called Manitous - in Micmac Mento, or Minto- and they had no other personal divinities.