Native American Religion Study Guide

Covers five specific traditions within the ~500+ distinct Native American nations: Lakota (Wakan Tanka, the Sacred Hoop, White Buffalo Calf Woman and the Seven Sacred Rites, the vision quest/Hanbleciya), Haudenosaunee (Sky Woman creation, Turtle Island, the Great Law of Peace/Gayanashagowa), Diné/Navajo (Hózhó and the Blessingway) and Anishinaabe (Manidoo, the Seven Grandfather Teachings), Pacific Northwest (Raven as trickster-creator, the potlatch), and the cross-national trickster tradition (Coyote, Iktomi, Nanabozho). The guide explicitly frames itself as deliberately incomplete, withholding sacred/restricted knowledge that indigenous communities have asked to be kept within their communities, and foregrounds land/place-specificity as the tradition's defining theological difference from portable Eurasian scriptural traditions.