Native Americans and Religion

Running head: NATIVE AMERICANS AND RELIGION
Native Americans and Religion
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1NATIVE AMERICANS AND RELIGION
In this paper, the religion and related beliefs of the North American people would be
discussed. The religious beliefs of the people have always been a very important perspective in
the global phenomenon. Numerous aboriginal people lived in the different regions of North and
South America before the Europeans had arrived there (Turner, 2016). The sacramental practices
had always been a matter of interest to many people across the globe.
Previously it had been assumed that the probable religious beliefs of the aboriginal
people in North and South America were a bit more than the anachronisms. The experts have
mentioned that these religions or beliefs did not have the sacred texts like Bible or they did not
even have a fixed doctrine (Turner, 2016). There were some moral codes in their religion that
were mostly oral and no written evidence of it had been found. Apart from that, these moral
codes had been used in the societies without the use of the wealth.
The religious beliefs of the Native Americans in both North and South America had been
in practice without the presence of the politics. Other important things like some usual identifiers
of the civilization are not available as well (Carroll, 2013). Another question that arises in this
perspective is that of the religious freedom among the Native American people. As per the first
amendment of the Constitution of the United States, the Government has given the rights of
celebrating the religious beliefs with freedom for all the people of all sects.
The policies of the United States always have tried to bring the native people of America
under the protection of the law authorities of the country. These law authorities had also marked
the religious ceremonies to be very much savage and primitive (Carroll, 2013). The assimilation
of the modern people and the native aboriginal people is the most needed thing to bring them