NATIVE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEMS: INCLUDING SHAMANISM (HENRY BOLANOS Book 14)

Native American spiritualities are often characterized with a strong emphasis on the importance of personal spirituality, and connectivity with one’s daily life, and a deep connection between the natural and spiritual 'worlds'. Their lives were steeped in religious ceremonies often directly related to farming and hunting. Spiritual power, they believed, suffused the world, and sacred spirits could be found in all kinds of living and inanimate things-animals, plants, trees, water, and wind.
Through religious ceremonies, they aimed to harness the aid of powerful supernatural forces to serve the interests of man. In some tribes, hunters performed rituals to thank the spirits of animals they had killed.
Native American religions tend to be carried out mainly in a family or tribal location first and are better explained as more of a process or journey than a religion. It is a relationship experienced between Creator and created.