Religion and Spirituality in Native American Culture

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Social Issues

 

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Carl G

 

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November 12, 2013

 

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University

 

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One thing f that my grandma, who is the great-granddaughter of a Cherokee Chief, instilled in me is the importance of my beliefs in God. When the Europeans came to North America and saw the spiritual practices, ceremonies, and rituals being performed, they thought of the Native Americans as barbarians and their practices pagan, and that's when the fight to keep their spiritual practices alive began...
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The Europeans sought to "Christianize the Indians" and sought to suppress indigenous spirituality (Doak). The United States government tried to force Christianity upon the Indians in a desperate attempt to destroy their traditions and to assimilate them into white Christian society; but it soon became "apparent to United States political and Christian leaders that the political and religious forms of tribal life were so closely intertwined as to be inseparable, and that in order to successfully suppress tribal political activity, it was imperative that tribal religious activity be suppressed as well"(Dill)...
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