Entries identify leaders, shamans, and specific beliefs and practices of various tribes.

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Describes traditional beliefs and worship practices, the consequences of contact with Europeans and other Americans, and the forms Native American religions tak

Entries identify leaders, shamans, and specific beliefs and practices of various tribes.

Shamanism can be defined as the practice of initiated shamans who are distinguished by their mastery of a range of altered states of consciousness. Shamanism ar