REL-1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Ghost Dance, Tenskwatawa, Major Religious Groups
Document Summary
Challenges in the study of naive american religions. Responsiveness in naive religious life: managing loss, preserving tradiion and idenity. Complicated by outsider romance: ideas about noble savages that complicate the eforts that naive americans make to handle social change. Authenicity and agency: issues scholars confront: ater james earl fraser, end of the trail original image c 1894. Invented indians: religion as invenion, indigenous histories show how religions work, image of the ghost dance and visions of idealized relaionships between naive americans and the natural world. The study of mother earth : the famous naive american idea that the earth is our mother, contemporary renderings of mother earth: The holy land is everywere by cherokee billie, spiritual advisor. Mother nature mother earth by shawna dockery: 1810 origin of mother earth. Shawnee confederacy early 1800s: tecumseh 1768-1813 shawnee chief, tenskwatawa 1771-1836 tecumseh"s brother. They tried to hold back colonizaion and throw the white man back in the sea .
