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Native American religions are the spiritual practices of the indigenous peoples of North America. Ceremonial ways can vary widely and are based on the differing histories and beliefs of individual tribes, clans, and bands. Early European explorers describe individual Native American tribes and even small bands as each having their own religious practices
From the 1600s, European Catholic and Protestant denominations sought to convert the tribes to Christianity, including through government and Christian church cooperative efforts that forcibly removed Native American children from their families into a Christian/state government-operated system of American Indian boarding schools (aka The Residential Schools) where Native children were taught European Christian beliefs
Because religions of this kind are so highly localized, it is impossible to determine exactly how many exist in North America now or may have existed in the past. Distinct languages in North America at the time of the first European contact are often estimated in the vicinity of 300, which linguists have variously grouped into some 30 to 50 families. Consequently, there is great diversity among these traditions.
The sun dance is a religious ceremony practiced by a number of
Native American and First Nations Peoples, primarily those of the
Plains Nations. Each tribe that has some type of sun dance ceremony
that has their own distinct practices and ceremonial
protocols
In the Native American experience, place is important, and
religious practices are often localized. The importance of place is
revealed in the beliefs of the Menominee, who use local geography
to explain the origin of their people, and the Iroquois, whose
longhouses are understood as microcosms of the universe.
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