Is Nature God in Native American culture?

[Makoiyi]

likewise lol

Makoiyi

I also recommend the book "Indian heroes and great chieftains" by Charles a Eastman (a Lakota author) u can find the audiobook free on utube. He wrote another book about indian way of life (can't remember the name) which should also be on utube

Originally Posted by VisionQuest

Watch the movies made by Native Americans to expand your understanding of their culture.

Crazy Horse
Geronimo
Tecumseh

And read a little known work written by one who LIVED among them for 25 years!

He Walked The Americas by L. Taylor Hanson

Read the book written by Chief Dan George of the Hopi "The Hopi Survival Kit"

Do that ..... and you will have a far greater understanding and more important .... RESPECT for Native Life, Mother Earth, and the Divine Spirit~

I am wondering if one of the authors is Chief Dan Evehema. He was a Hopi leader, I think. Chief Dan George - one of my favourite Canadian Indigenous leaders - was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation from Canada's West Coast.

And to the OP: what I've been taught is that we have a Higher Power, some call it God, some call it Great Spirit - there are many names - but that S/He is the Maker of all Things, including this vast spider web of Relations known as "Nature".

From what I have come to understand (after studying about world cultures) is that God or Great Spirit Chief to the American Indians is One God. The Great Mystery that created all Life

From what I have come to understand (after studying about world cultures) is that God or Great Spirit Chief to the American Indians is One God. The Great Mystery that created all Life.

It is to my understanding that our Mother the Earth is a living spirit. While it is not "god" everything we need to survive comes from her. Our food, water, medicine, ect comes from the earth. If you learn about the female/male balance of the universe you will have a better understanding of what I am saying about Mother Earth being a living spirit.

Tobacco was used as a medicine to link Man with Mother Earth, and Great Spirit Chief. But that has been recently discussed in another topic

[Deepsoul]

I dont have any American Indian heritage but I feel a strong love for the culture and spirituality,I named my youngest son Mato meaning brave.I sometimes think if I was a early Indian before white man and the many different religions that if I lived in Nature as it was brutal ,beautiful and becoming the relationship would have been deeply spiritual and profound,its because of this disconnection now that it is more challenging to commune with the Great Spirit. So the Tree is definetly my church.Deepsoul