NATAMST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Western Religions, Mccloud River, Federal Highway Administration

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NATAMST 100
• Professor: Joseph Myers

Document Summary

All over america, for 500 years, natives have struggled to protect their sacred places: burial grounds where ancestors rest, sanctuaries for medicinal plants, landscapes of unusual natural power, sources of prophecy. First americans (inidigenous people who have lived & occupied this land) are being deprived of central principle (religious principle) on which us was established. Can"t go on public lands to pray for earth & its continued fertility. Story of 3 communities: wintu, hopi, lakota. Threatened by mineral extraction, recreational uses & competing religions. Black hills was the center on life. If a man was dying, starving or poor, he went to black hills & next spring, he"d come out of there in good health (life & body would be renewed) Each summer, lakota runner circle the black hills. Runners follow a course to determine who would be strongest & wisest. 1995: park service asked climbers to stay off devils tower during month of june.