Indigenous Religious Traditions

Among the various lessons provided in this course, I took particular interest in the lesson over Native American histories and cultures. The lesson exposed students to the varying Native American societies based on geography and featured information delving into the social structures, diets, material cultures and religions of the individual societies. I found that learning about the indigenous religious practices across different regions of the Americas was among the most impactful and interesting. A trend across the indigenous religious beliefs is a focus on ancestors and/or the deceased. The Tlingit celebrated their dead at potlatch ceremonies and the Arapaho Ghost Dance followers believed that their ancestors would one day return as part