Native American religions

Native American religions, Native American faith or American Indian religions are the Indigenous spiritual practices of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Ceremonial practices involve sacred, spiritual, cultural traditions that can differ slightly among the indigenous groups of the continent. Early European explorers describe some communities, now labelled Native American tribes in the USA and small First Nations or bands in Canada, as each having unique religious practices. Theology may be monotheistic, polytheistic, henotheistic, animistic, shamanistic, pantheistic or any combination thereof, among others. Traditional beliefs are usually passed down in the oral tradition forms of myths, oral histories, stories, allegories, and principles. Nowadays, as scholars note, many American Natives are having a renewed interest in their own traditions.