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Native American Indian with Axe, Standing
Most of the hunting and gathering peoples of North America hoped to enter intimate relationships with spirits and to win these spirits as their protectors. They also hoped to avoid spirits thought to be dangerous, harmful, or evil.
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Native American Indian with Bow & Arrow
Because Native Americans believed that supernatural powers were personal beings, they sought to establish relationships with benevolent guardian spirits. Such relationships existed across the North American continent, although they were not prominent in the Southwest.
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Native American Indian with Drum
Native American drums are fashioned by hand from natural materials and feature excellent sound. On a clear nights the sound of these drums could be heard for miles.
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Native American Indian with Tomahawk
The term "tomahawk" is a derivation of the Algonquian words "tamahak" or "tamahakan". The earliest definitions of these words (early 1600's) applied to stone-headed implements used as tools and weapons. Subsequent references involved all manner of striking weapons; wood clubs, stone-headed axes, ...
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Native American Indian Bust with Nose Ring
In order to make their prayers effective, Native Americans made offerings to the spirits. The most common offering was of native tobacco, either smoked in pipes, burned in fires, or deposited ceremonially. An Ojibwa, for example, having killed a bear, placed tobacco in the animal's nose to appeas...
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Native Indian Bust with Feathered Headress
Myths provided communities with a cosmogony, a story of how the world came to have its present form; a worldview, a picture of how the various aspects of the world are related to one another; and an ethos, a code of behavior for human beings.
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Native American Indian with Axe, Large
One famous trickster in Native American history is the figure of Coyote. In the Navajo story of creation, the Holy Persons methodically placed stars in the sky and plants on the earth. Coyote came along and scattered these elements about, creating the world as it exists today. Coyote also kidnapp...
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Native American Indian with Spear, Large
Through their oral traditions, Native Americans told how the processes of creation occurred, often through the transforming activities of creative deities, cultural heroes, and tricksters. These stories were not meant to be authoritative assertions about the origin of the world: A single people o...
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