Comparison Of Indigenous Beliefs And Practices

In today’s environment of corporate greed and global domination where humanity consumes most of the world’s natural resources for gain and profit with little consideration for indigenous people sacred ways of life, a connection to the earth and its inhabitants is lost. A loss that could potentially result in humanities self destruction as the ecosystem is compromised and right relationships as a whole are not maintained. Indigenous sacred ways seek to re-connect and maintain right relationships with the universe and its inhabitants both seen and unseen through rituals, symbols, and myths that enables the ecosystem as well as indigenous communities cultural system to sustain itself through their beliefs and practices. Indigenous beliefs and practices that vary from the industrial and modernized world view of religion, relationships, and maintaining valuable resources.
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Their beliefs are all encompassing as a whole regarding the universe, the earth, and its inhabitants which sustains all life. In indigenous cultures, there is no word for religion or spirituality. (Fisher, 2014, p.35) Fisher maintains that religion is re-connecting or tying people back to something behind the surface of life-a greater reality, which lies beyond. (Fisher, 2014, p.2) Indigenous sacred beliefs is a connection to what is seen and unseen as well as what is alive and what has passed all of which is interconnect and dependent upon each other exhibited through their