# Native American Traditions ## Native American Traditions ![native-american-traditions](/sites/g/files/omnuum10836/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2025-05/hero7_0.png?itok=vpCBMJ9C) ## Essays [### Introduction to Native Peoples' Traditions ](/introduction-to-native-peoples%E2%80%99-traditions) ![Native Drummer in Los Angeles](/sites/g/files/omnuum10836/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/pluralism/files/top_4_native.jpg?h=3d4d3570&itok=oNGjhGEB) [### Native Peoples' Experience ](/native-peoples%E2%80%99-experience) ![Singing and Drumming at the Feast of the Dead Near Washington, DC](/sites/g/files/omnuum10836/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/pluralism/files/top_5_native.jpg?h=2b466f4c&itok=wJQun3XG) [### Issues for Native Peoples ](/issues-for-native-peoples) ![Mt. Shasta](/sites/g/files/omnuum10836/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/MtShastaCC.jpg?itok=df21UK7G) ## Glossary [### powwow ](/powwow) [### sweat lodge ](/sweat-lodge-0) [### Medicine Leader ](/medicine-leader) [### Ghost Dance ](/ghost-dance) [### myth ](/myth) [### Native American Church ](/native-american-church) [### pipe ceremony ](/pipe-ceremony) [### Religious Freedom Restoration Act ](/religious-freedom-restoration-act) [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/native-american-traditions-glossary-terms) ## Selected Publications Download 3 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=3&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_cities1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_religioustradition%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=169129&&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=3&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_cities1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_religioustradition%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=169129&&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=3&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_cities1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_religioustradition%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=169129&&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=3&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_cities1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_religioustradition%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=169129&&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=3&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_cities1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_religioustradition%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=169129&&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=3&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_cities1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_religioustradition%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=169129&&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=3&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_cities1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_religioustradition%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=169129&&&format=ris) ### 2024 Kearns, Laurel D., and Whitney A. Bauman, eds. *[Religion and Nature in America: An Introduction](/publication/religion-and-nature-america-introduction)*. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Kearns, Laurel D., and Whitney A. Bauman, eds. *[Religion and Nature in America: An Introduction](/publication/religion-and-nature-america-introduction)*. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Kimmerer, Robin Wall. *[Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World](/publication/serviceberry-abundance-and-reciprocity-natural-world)*. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2024. Kimmerer, Robin Wall. *[Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World](/publication/serviceberry-abundance-and-reciprocity-natural-world)*. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2024. ### 2020 McNally, Michael David. *[Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment](/publications/defend-sacred-native-american-religious-freedom-beyond-first-amendment)*. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020. McNally, Michael David. *[Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment](/publications/defend-sacred-native-american-religious-freedom-beyond-first-amendment)*. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020. [ See more publications arrow\_circle\_right ](/publications?f%5B0%5D=bibcite_reference_hwp_c_religioustradition%3A169129) ## Selected Links [### Native Religions ](https://nativereligions.sites.carleton.edu/) [### Sacred Land Film Project ](https://sacredland.org/) [### The University of Arizona American Indian Studies ](https://ais.arizona.edu/) [### Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health ](https://cih.jhu.edu/) [### Tekakwitha Conference ](https://www.tekconf.org) [### Navajo Times ](http://www.navajotimes.com) [ See more links arrow\_circle\_right ](/links?f%5B0%5D=hwp_c_religioustradition%3A169129) ### Explore Native American Traditions in Greater Boston Native Americans from several dozen tribes have inhabited what we call Greater Boston for at least 10,000 years. Despite centuries of ill treatment, coerced conversion attempts, social marginalization, and painful acculturation, the complex nature-based spiritual traditions of nearly thirty distinct tribes and bands survive in New England today. The more than 6,000 Native Americans who call Greater Boston home are active through a range of social and community organizations. [ Learn More arrow\_circle\_right ](/native-traditions-in-boston) ![Map of Native Traditions Centers in Boston](/sites/g/files/omnuum10836/files/styles/hwp_1_1__480x480/public/pluralism/files/native_traditions_boston_map.jpg?itok=EGOihkel)