NAS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Native American Church

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NAS 101
• Professor: William Yellow Robe

Document Summary

2 branches of the cheyenne - northern (montana) and southern (oklahoma) cheyenne. Ceremonies - (used for healing people, both males and females do them) such as sweats (helps you focus and cleanse your mind), sundance"s (helps elevate your consciousness, helps you see a different view of the world), vision guests. Vatican (located in the vatican city) is its own nation. 2 ownerships that native people never grasp: borders and acres. When borders seems to be establishes, they change and were moved because of the location of gold, for miners and homesteaders to get through, and making sure they wouldn"t be. They look the native"s land and gave them back a small portion of it. They took (and destroyed) their religion, and replaced it with their own. They took gold and other resources, however, the tribes never gave up the black hills.