Native American Religion. Native Americans were the settlers who had inhabited America, long before the Europeans set foot on the Americas.
It is believed Native Americans had arrived in America, sometime during the last ice age, i.e. around 20,000-30,000 years ago. Anthropologists opine Native Americans must have crossed the land bridge across the Bering Sea from Siberia into Alaska. About the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Barbara Landis Note: I use the term "Indian" throughout this article to identify the peoples of the various autochthonous nations within the U.S. borders, who were affected by and recruited for the Indian School experiment, in keeping with the written accounts of the historic period during the school's existence.
The story of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School begins with a brief introduction to its founder. Richard Henry Pratt spent eight years (1867-1875) in Indian Territory as an officer of the 10th Cavalry, commanding a unit of African-American "Buffalo Soldiers" and Indian Scouts. Kidz Korner -Stories from Indian Mythology. Native American myths. Among all tribes there is a strong sense that behind all individual spirits and personifications of the divine, there is a single creative life-force, sometimes called ‘the Great Mystery’, which expresses itself throughout the universe, in every human, animal, tree and grain of sand.
Every story, too, is a working out of this life-force. The role of animals An aspect of this outlook is the major role played in the stories by animals, who often speak to humans and assist them.