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Ceremony and rituals have long played a vital and essential role in Native American culture. Often referred to as “religion,” most Native Americans did not consider their spirituality, ceremonies, and rituals as “religion,” in the way that Christians do. Includes Dances, Mythology and Legends, Native American Medicine, Ordeals, and
Rituals & Ceremonies, such as Death Ceremonies, Green Corn Festivals, Peyote Worship, Pow-Wows, and more.
Rituals & Ceremonies, such as Death Ceremonies, Green Corn Festivals, Peyote Worship, Pow-Wows, and more.
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Alaska Totem Pole, 1908
Antelope priests chanting at Kisi Moki snake dance, Hopi, Detroit Photographic,1902
Apache Dancers, 1906
Apache medicine cap and fetish, 1907, Edward S. Curtis
Appeal to the Great Spirit
Apsaroke Sun Dance ritual
Arikara Indian at the Alter, 1908, Edward S. Curtis
Arikara Medicine Men, 1908
Blackfoot Legend of the Peace Pipe, 1915
Cheyenne Dance, 1890
Cheyenne Dancers, 1890
Cheyenne Peace Pipe, 1907
Cheyenne Peyote leader
Cheynne Priests Passing Pipe, 1910
CheynneSundance preparation Edward S Curtis, 1910
Chief Turtle doing the Rain Dance, MT
Crows Smoking, 1905
Dakota man with calumet kneeling by altar, 1907, Edward S. Curtis
Dakota Sioux Medicine Man, 1907
Flathead Indian Dance
