Are there any American Indians here and enlighten us about your ancient views on Religion or Spirtuality. Most of what we get are from "cowboy and indian" movies or TV shows.
I don't see many or any American Indians speaking up here at all! Do you exist here?
What are you views on life!?
2006-09-04 03:58:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I didn't mean to tread on taboos or make anyone be scareligious, that statement alone, that you don't really discuss it does answer the question.
I also thought maybe I should call you Native American, but I would also get some Mexican Indians who were in the Texas and California area and I was more interested in the "Traditional North American" natives.
Sorry if I offended anyone with either. I simply wanted to learn more.
Again, saying you don't discuss it with, for example, outsders does actually answer the question!
2006-09-04 17:19:57 · update #1
Hey, to most of you!
I've been bragging about how you all got even with White Man and their Treaties with the Casinos, tax free booze and smokes.
I think it's great you forced White Man to live by their own words in those treates and make you somewhat Automonmus!
I also rub it in the Christians face, and I'm a believer in God and Jesus, that they didn't do very good by You, Blacks, Women and Children!
But to be truthful, these are the kinds of answers I was looking for, because you've been very silent here while the Atheists, Agnostics, Christians, Jews, Islamic and even some Hindus have been very active.
This is supposed to be Religion and Sprituality and everyone should be included!.
Again, sorry if I offended anyone by steping on sacred toes. That wasn't the intent!
2006-09-04 17:35:08 · update #2
As for where was God and Jesus, I expect that judgement will come in due time at the end of time.
A lot of Christians "think" they're going to get to heaven. God may look at them and their sect and see if they really past the true test of what it means to be a follower of God and Jesus.
2006-09-04 17:38:17 · update #3
I am out here anyways. I don't get caught up on all the old cliches and stereotypes. My parents were part of the hippie movement back in the 1960s. I have some pretty cool parents and a couple of caring brother as well.
I live by...life is what you put into it and what you get back in return. I love playing in the band I'm in, play guitar and keyboard, and have a lot of fun. I grew up just as normal as any other American kid, but instead of a heritage that may have come from Europe, Africa or Asia, mine was always here in the central plain of this great land. I am Lakhota.
2006-09-04 04:15:05 · answer #1 · answered by Siouxxi M 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well for starters, the way you ask this question just sent nearly every American Indian, who really knows our Traditions, running. You couldn't have been more discouraging if you'd pointed a gun at everyone of us an demanded answers with the threat of death through slow torture.
I am telling you this because you clearly do not know any better.
The concept of religion, spirituality, views on life, Politics etc. being separate from one another as is perceived in the Greater world is alien to our many different cultures.
Moreover, this is an extremely personal question to ask in our Native Traditions. Such deep subjects are sacred and generally reserved for persons well known to us.
Sigh, If you're really interested in a Native American Indian world view here's a book I'd recomend. But remember this isn't even the tip of the iceburg on the beliefs of one tribe, My Tribe. Incedently a lot of us Indians prefer the term "Nation" and some others, especially Urban Indians and the less educated, don't like to be called indian, they prefer Native American.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826315607?v=glance
Who is this white person who speaks so insultingly after me? I have never known this to be of our ways so I know they can't be native. I do not know you, you don't even have a picture so I can get to know you. Why do you hide your white face? You think I speak of skin?
2006-09-04 11:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by Shazaaye Puebla 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Native americans view earth as our mother. We are to take no more from the land than we need and are to give back what we take. We believe everything has a spirit and everything has a tale to tell. We do not believe in burying our dead but cremating the body and sending them home. If an animal is to be killed for food, we thank God and the animal for allowing us to eat. All things are sacred. In many ways the religion is not unlike modern wiccan or paganism.
2006-09-04 11:06:57 · answer #3 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
*I don't see many or any American Indians speaking up here at all! Do you exist here?**
Yes, you are right, i think that smallpox, guns,
deprivation, discrimination, slavery, suffering, death, reservations and the destiny that was not so manifest has whittled them down a bit. And that Trail of tears could not have helped much either. Where was God and what would Jesus do, apparently nothing.
Live and let live.
2006-09-04 12:36:15 · answer #4 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm part indian but i don't really know much about indain stuff cuz i'm only 13
2006-09-04 12:42:56 · answer #5 · answered by whatever 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they share the same beliefs like we do ...( Wiccans )
Animism and Polythism.......etc
2006-09-04 11:12:31 · answer #6 · answered by judy-ann j 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/contents.htm
2006-09-04 11:03:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋