Native American Path

Native American spirituality, or indigenous spirituality is a set of spiritual beliefs practiced by many individuals, mostly indigenous peoples, from this continent. In North America this path is sometimes called the natural way and sometimes the red way and one who practices it is said to be “on the good, red road”. Although there is no one Native American way, because all the tribes’ religions are different in detail and practice, there are certain characteristics that run throughout most of the tribes’ precepts. Primarily there is a concern for the earth and all of its creation whether all the races, all the species and all of inanimate life. In other words, although they don’t worship the earth there is a concern for it and all its life forms: they honor the earth and all of creation equally. Man is considered only a small part of the larger cycles and in this sense they are like the oriental viewpoint. But distinct to the Native groups are the concept of responsibility for caretaking the rest of creation.

Although it used to be understood as a primitive religion now it considered a religion with many answers for contemporary society because it is based on unity: that is belief in the unity of all the races, the unity of all religions, the unity of all species, and the unity of the unified field, which includes the earth and all of creation. However, it also includes as a major tenet the idea of the multiplicity of creation and mankind’s small role in the totality of creation. The duality of life is recognized.

The Red Road has four Commandments:

Respect for the Great Spirit
Respect the Earth
Respect your Fellow Men and Women
Respect every man’s freedom (provided it does not interfere or threaten the tribe, the People or Mother Earth)

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Native American Nations

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The Native Americans

Native Americans (also Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerind, Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Native Canadians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization. This term encompasses a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them still enduring as political communities.

The terms "Amerindian" and "Indian", both of which are derivatives of "American Indian" (as is "Amerind", though this term is more popular in linguistic circles), are not necessarily completely synonymous with "Native American". Although all Amerindians are Native Americans, not all Native Americans are Amerindians.

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