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Lawrence E. Sullivan
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Professor of the History of Religions; Director, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University. Author of Icanchu's Drum: South American Religions, an Orientation to Meaning.

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Map of Canada showing the distribution of major Indigenous communities, with symbols indicating reserves or settlements of Indian bands with populations over 1,000, including Blackfeet, Cree, Kwakiutl, Mohawk, Micmac, Niska, Ojibwa, and others, as well as Eskimo (Inuit) communities with populations over 500. Major First Nations and Inuit locations are labeled across the provinces and northern territories.
Native American religions, religious beliefs and sacramental practices of the indigenous peoples of North and South America. Until the 1950s it was commonly assumed that the religions of the surviving Native Americans were little more than curious anachronisms, dying remnants of humankind’s…
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