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Religious Traditions of Native Americans
Notes for Native American Religion Finals
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/07/2013

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Ishi
Definition
last of the yahi people
Term
Native american church
Definition

A legal incorporation name of a group of people in many tribes around the country that consume peyote.

Term
Peyote
Definition

An outlawed drug

mescaline in it

hallucinogen

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David Alberle
Definition

“ peyote cult springs from human suffering. The suffering of Indians at the hands of American society.”

Its americans fault they need peyote

Term
Ake Hultkrantz
Definition

peyote is a “ crisis religion” arising from contact and conflict

 

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weston labarrie
Definition
The Peyote cult = a crisis cult
Term
syncretism
Definition
combining two traditions to make a third
Term
christianity + indian = _______
Definition
Native American Church
Term
How many tribes in the US and Canada are allowed to consume Peyote?
Definition
50
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Viltorio Lanternai
Definition
NAC is a "religion of the opressed"
Term
AFC Wallace
Definition
NAC is a "revitalization movement"
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James Moorley
Definition
Peyote possesses varied and valuable medicinal properties in a time of prayer and contemplation
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Carlos Castenada
Definition
Wrote "The Teachings of Don Juan"
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Peyote's arrival in North America
Definition
Came to US around 1870 through the Comanche and Kiowa tribes in Oklahoma
Term
what year was the NAC legally recognized
Definition
1918
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Tribe that NAC is most popular among
Definition

Navajo

sometimes referred to as peyotists

largest tribe is 250K

Term
4 ways in which peyote is consumed
Definition

Button

Tea

Gruel (porridge)

Chew it, spit into hands, and rub over body

Term
peyote is comparable to ______
Definition
ipicac - makes you want to throw up
Term
NAC and Christianity both have _____
Definition
Branches
Term
Most common branch of NAC is ______. another branch is _______
Definition
halfmoon; crossfire
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Roadman
Definition
person that leads the ceremony. he will take you down "Peyote Road"
Term
elements of a Peyote prayer session
Definition
Gourd rattle, eaglebone whistle, drum, feathered fan, fire, water, rolling paper, tobacco
Term
Drumchief
Definition
Plays songs
Term
cedar chief
Definition
throws cedar in the fire
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fire chief
Definition
takes care of fire and guards tipi door
Term
who prepares the peyote
Definition
female relative of the roadman
Term
mescaline
Definition
active drug in peyote
Term
hours of peyote service
Definition
8pm-9am
Term
peyote ceremony begins with _____
Definition
smoking a cigarette
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Eagle Bear
Definition
led Steltenkamps peyote ceremony. 80 years old.
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events at a peyote ceremony
Definition
prayer, singing, eating peyote, contemplation
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crossfire
Definition
very organized. speak of sacrapents and preach the gospel
Term
halfmoon
Definition
most popular; simpler
Term
Wah tay Cha buckets
Definition
"to go" boxes after a peyote ceremony
Term
Kiowa origin story of Peyote
Definition
young pregnant woman got seperated on a food gathering expedition. she was lost, bore child, and was soon in bad health. she was led to peyote plant, ate some, gained strength, found her people, and instructed them about peyote
Term
halfmoon fireplace
Definition

most common

use a crescent shaped alter

older/more traditional

use term "road man"

use native language

more syncrenistic

simpler

Term
crossfire fireplace
Definition

horseshoe alter

use term "minister"

more christian

strict moral code

gospel songs in english

no tobacco smoking

bible in use

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caddo john wilson
Definition
originated crossfire traditions
Term
similarities of halfmoon and crossfire
Definition
  1. divine role of peyote and its power to teach and heal
  2. opposed use of liquor
  3. peyote used to concentrate, not hallucinate
  4. service are usually on saturday nights, called meetings
Term
periods of peyote meeting
Definition
  1. sunset to midnight
  2. midnight to 3
  3. 3 to dawn
  4. dawn to morning

song sung between each one

Term
4 foods ritually eaten
Definition
beef, corn, fruit, water
Term
other uses of peyote
Definition

remedy for sickness

induce vomiting

Term
Comanche
Definition
"white people talk about Jesus, we talk to him"
Term
Little Big Horn is aka
Definition
Battle of Greasy Grass
Term
Custer's age significance
Definition
23 years old, youngest general
Term
battle of washita
Definition

1868

cheyenne indians were forced off the reservation into OK territory

Term
Black Kettle
Definition
leader during battle of washita
Term
Battle of Washita outcome
Definition
custer was successful. indian loss
Term
crow scouts
Definition
custer's scouts.
Term
icilowan
Definition
death song - sang before death
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Reno and Benteen
Definition
custer took them to fight at little big horn
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Little Big Horn outcome
Definition
Custers men were wiped out
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Libby Bacon
Definition
Custer's wife
Term
New Rumley, OH
Definition

50 miles from WJU

Custer was born here

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General St. Clair
Definition
led soldiers against little turtle in Indiana
Term
battle of washiba
Definition

Indiana

623 soldiers killed (largest # of military deaths)

Term
Custer's death
Definition
the 9/11 of that time period
Term
Crazy Horse
Definition

Killed in Fort Robinson in 1877

army soldier killed him with a bayonet

greatest of the Indians today

Term
Black Elk came home from Europe and the _____ ______ was sweeping the tribes
Definition
Ghost Dance
Term
"it's a good day to die"
Definition

Black Elk Speaks used this phrase

Popular among indians everywhere

Black Elk never said it

 

Term
Jack Wilson
Definition

Started the Ghost Dance

he was a con man

he could "make the sun disappear"

AKA wovoka

Term
Ghost Dance becuase...
Definition
Whites and blacks would go away, Indian dead will arise,  Buffalo would return, and life will return as it once was
Term
Don Young
Definition

racist old man

Republican Alaska Rep.

Term
Father Craft
Definition
Catholic Priest at wounded knee battle
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Forsyth
Definition
got in trouble for letting his troops intermingle with the Indians
Term
Dee Brown
Definition
wrote Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
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Arvol Looking Horse
Definition
keeper of the sacred pipe
Term
David Koresh
Definition
led the branch davidians - an offshoot of 7th day adventists
Term
thunderheart
Definition

with actor val kilmer

plays an agent

Term
AIM
Definition
american indian movement
Term
anna mae aquash
Definition
indian woman found dead at pine ridge
Term
Black Elks first wife
Definition
anna brings white horses
Term
black elks three kids
Definition
Lucy, ben, nick jr.
Term
sam kills brave
Definition

leader of manderson community

catholic that told black elk to drop medicine man stuff

Term
joseph lindebner
Definition
close friend of black elk, baptized him
Term
president grant
Definition
assigned christian denominations to indian groups
Term
custers died at the battle of
Definition
Little Big Horn
Term
Black Elk at Little big horn
Definition

10 years old

scalped a soldier

Term
what was done to dead soldiers at little big horn and why
Definition
they were brutally chopped up so in the afterlife they would be messed up
Term
Crazy Horse relation to Black Elk
Definition
Cousin
Term
The mission
Definition
film on jesuits in brazil
Term
Chief Joseph
Definition

Nez Perce

"I will fight no more forever"

Term
music
Definition
honors familied and ancestors
Term
vocable
Definition
non meaning syllables/sounds
Term
flutes
Definition
common for love songs
Term
drums
Definition
played with sticks
Term
caddo art
Definition

woodcarving

black dye

men and women wear earrings

Term
buffy st. marie
Definition

outspoken indian vocalist

protest against government through song

Term
robbie robinson
Definition
golden feather
Term
4 types of rattles
Definition

turtle shell

bark

gourd

deer hooves

Term
drum at a ceremony
Definition
only instrument
Term
plains songs
Definition
high pitch
Term
southwest
Definition
low pitch
Term
east coast woodlands
Definition
back and forth singing (q and a)
Term
song verses
Definition
not complicated
Term
women at pow wows
Definition
never sing
Term
general allotment act of 1887
Definition
took 90% of nez perce land away
Term
nez perce boys
Definition
learned hunting at an early age
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chief looking glass
Definition
battlefield commander for nez perce
Term
3 clans of delaware
Definition
wolf, turkey, turtle
Term
thomas penn
Definition
delaware chief
Term
old delaware religion
Definition
vision quest/sweat lodge
Term
new religion delaware
Definition
christian
Term
how did caddos make a living
Definition
getting educated and getting careers
Term
who coined term nez perce
Definition
lewis and clark
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