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26 Cards in this Set
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American Indian Religious Freedom Act |
1978 U.S. law to guarantee freedom of religious practice for Native Americans |
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axis mundi |
an academic term for the center of the world, which connects the earth with the heavens |
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Changing Woman |
mythic ancestor of the Navajo people who created the first humans |
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Ghost Dance |
religious resistance movements in 1870 and 1890 that originated in Nevada with among Paiute peoples |
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Holy Wind |
Navajo conception of a spiritual force that inhabits every element of creation
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kachina |
Pueblo spiritual beings |
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Native American Church |
a church founded in the early twentieth century based on Peyote Religion |
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Popol Vuh |
Quiche Mayan book of creation |
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rites of passage |
rituals that mark the transition from one social stage to another
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rites of renewal |
rituals that seek to enhance natural processes, like rain or fertility, or enhance the solidarity of the group |
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sand painting |
a painting made with sand used by Navajo healers to treat ailments |
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sweat lodge |
a structure built for ritually cleansing and purifying the body |
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trickster |
a common figure in North American mythologies; a trickster tale often teaches important moral lessons |
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vision quest |
a ritual attempt by an individual to communicate with the spiritual world |
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Amma |
the High God of the Dogon people |
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bori |
a term for West African spirits |
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Candomble |
New World religion with roots in West Africa - particularly Yoruba culture - which is prominent in Brazil |
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divination |
the attempt to learn about events that will happen in the future through supernatural means |
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Ifa |
the divination system of the Yoruba religion, believed to be revealed to humanity by the gods |
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medium |
a person who is possessed by a spirit, and thus mediates between the human and spirit world |
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moran |
a young man in Samburu or Maasai culture who has been circumcised and thus has special cultural or religious duties |
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orisa |
term for lesser deities in Yoruba religion |
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Oshun |
a Yoruba goddess |
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pantheon |
a group of deities or spirits |
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Santeria
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New World religion with roots in West Africa; prominent in Cuba |
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Vodou |
New World religion with roots in West Africa; prominent in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora |
