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The religious traditions of native North Americans are examined in Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (1996); Denise Lardner Carmody and John Tully Carmody, Native American Religions (1993); D.M. Dooling and Paul Jordan-Smith (eds.), I Become Part of It: Sacred Dimensions in Native American Life (1989); Sam Gill, Native American Traditions: Sources and Interpretations (1983); Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette Molin, The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions (1992); Lee Irwin, The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains (1994); Richard K. Nelson, Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest (1983); Alfonso Ortiz, The Tewa World: Space, Time, Being, and Becoming in a Pueblo Society (1969); Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock (eds.), Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy (1975, reprinted 1992); and Ray A. Williamson and Claire R. Farrer (eds.), Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore (1992).
Native South American religious beliefs and practices are studied in John Bierhorst, The Mythology of South America (1988); Gary H. Gossen and Miguel Léon-Portilla (eds.), South and Meso-American Native Spirituality: From the Cult of the Feathered Serpent to the Theology of Liberation (1993); Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Yuruparí: Studies of an Amazonian Foundation Myth (1996); Lawrence E. Sullivan, Icanchu’s Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions (1988); Johannes Wilbert, Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (1993); and Johannes Wilbert and Karin Simoneau (eds.), Folk Literature of South American Indians, 24 vol. (1970–92).
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Christopher Jocks
Christopher Jocks Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and Religion, Dartmouth College. Author of numerous studies of Native American religion and culture.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: Legends of America - Native American Religion. | Feb 09, 2026 | ||
| Removed media. | Dec 20, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Indian Religion. | Aug 30, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 10, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Native Indian Tribes - Native American Religion. | May 28, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 14, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation -Native American religion and values. | Jul 07, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopedia of Chicago - Native American Religions. | Jul 07, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Indians.org - Native American Religion. | Sep 16, 2013 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 06, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 25, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: University of Virginia - Religious Movements - Native American Spirituality. | Jun 19, 2006 | ||
| New article added. | Jul 15, 2005 |