Navajo Tribe Rituals

Introduction
The healing rituals in the Navajo tribes included the spiritual healing ritual, which is a type of medicine or cure that is believed to be assisted by the spirits (Vogel 338). The Native Americans believed so much in these rituals, especially the Navajo tribe was the community that had strong beliefs in the capacity of this spiritual ritual healing. These healing rituals were influenced by the medium, which was the medicine, operated by Shaman who would perform these rituals and will be able to heal a sick person. This paper will focus mainly on the beliefs, ceremonies and ritual events that were believed by the Navajo people to treat their patients. It also argues ways and methods the Navajo used for their ritual rites. The Navajo

If there were other sick people around the place the service has been set, they were also allowed to attend and describe their problems too, so that they could also be attended to (Vogel 338). During this event, the affected person would be required to prepare food for the team belonging to the medicine man and to those that would attend. The most food that was being proposed and used mostly during such ceremonies was the buffalo soup, which was believed to an offering to the spirits. The man would also order a different color of small pieces of cloth; this piece was a representative of the spirits in the spiritual world whom will communicate their effective actions of the diseases of the patients through these colors. The number of these pieces was ranging from 50 to 70 in numbers (Vogel 338). The sick person would then be required to prepare a small bag using the tobacco plant. The sick person will then pray before tying these bags with the pieces of cloth; this was to signify what the ill need from the spirits and mostly about their illness. After this, the man then sits on the prepared altar, takes a pipe, and sends some smokes to the air. This was to enable the spirits to start working on the prayers and within a few days the sick person gets well. After this process, the

The herbals included tree parts that were the leaves, backs, fruits and the roots. A sick person would visit a traditional herbalist who was well known in the Navajo community. The patients will be required to describe how they feel and place the regions in the body that have been affected. The medicine man would then order some requirements for the treatment, which were mostly an animal. This animal will then be slaughtered, and this will act as offerings to the spirits, which will then show the herbalist the kinds of tree species he would pick to cure this sick person (Vogel 338). This process was adamant and would enable this herbalist to be able to communicate with the spirits and provide proper medicine that would change the feeling of the sick. During this time, the gardener man would always conduct prayers to the spirits to be able to make his herbal choice to provide healing to the patient (Cross 10). Although the healers helped people who were suffering, some people used the ceremonies improperly to harm and was known as witchcraft. The Navajo people were alerted about these types of individuals, and they are the reasons why the Navajo people did not reveal