Exam 2: Indigenous Religions: North America and Africa

The "sky vault" is a feature of which creation story?

According to Evan Pritchard, understanding Native American spirituality is just like understanding Christianity or some other major religion.

Haudenosaunee is the Native name for the

The Yoruba of Nigeria, whose progenitor god was likely female, include female deities in their pantheon.

What does the following Key Term mean: -Ghost Dance

There is no such thing as "the African religion."

Joseph Akinyele Omoyajowo examines the possibility of an increased emphasis on _________ elements in African indigenous religions.

Which of these misconceptions has not been applied to indigenous religions?

Indigenous traditions have a common conception of a supreme being or ultimate power.

In every Yoruba community, there is an elaborate code of manners and etiquette, observance of which helps to reduce the strains and frustrations of interpersonal relationships.

The Iroquois myth of creation includes Ata-en-sic, the Sky Woman.

In what decade did the Massacre at Wounded Knee occur?

Myths and sacred stories are static, that is, they never change over time.

What does the following Key Term mean: -magic

Primordial myths are rejected in contemporary African societies.

Which of these is not listed as a "positive" stereotype of Native Americans by scholar Frederick W. Turner?

In many African indigenous religions, ________ are to be venerated and appeased through ceremony, for they can help or harm the living, depending on the latter's behavior and commitments.

According to Clair Farrer, time has a different character, a different dimension, on Indian reservations than it does in mainstream American life.

Some scholars estimate that at the time of Columbus's arrival in the New World, forty to fifty million indigenous people lived in the Americas, representing hundreds of tribes and perhaps as many as two thousand distinct languages.

Religious worldviews, often unique to distinct ethnic groups, reflect people's identities and lie at the heart of how they relate to one another, to other people, and to the world at large.