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13 Colonies Notes
Study Cards Of Religion In The Colonies And Native American Notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Native Americans religion? | Native American religion: three large generalizations. |
| What is the first large generalization? | First, almost all had creation myths which tried to explain how those societies had come into being. |
| What is the second large generalization? | Second, most native peoples worshiped and all-powerful, all-knowing creator and a host of lesser supernatural beings. |
| What is the third large generalization? | Third, most tribes believed in the immortality of the human soul and an afterlife. |
| Like all other cultures, what did the Indian societies of North America hope of? | Like all other cultures, the Indian societies of North America hoped to get the aid of the supernatural in controlling the natural and social world. |
| When entire communities looked for divine assistance who would they call upon? | When entire communities looked for divine assistance they called upon shamans, priests, and, in fewer tribes, priestesses, whom they believed received supernatural powers through visions. |
| What did many key Indian religious beliefs and practices bore broad but striking similarities to what? | Many key Indian religious beliefs and practices bore broad but striking similarities to those among early modern Europeans, both Catholic and Protestant. |
| These cultures, too, had what? | these cultures, too, had a creation story. |
| What did the native peoples worship? | They worshiped a Creator God. |
| What did the native peoples look forward to? | They looked forward to the individual soul's immortality in an afterlife. |
| How did the native peoples worship their God? | They worshiped their God with prayers and offerings. |
| What did the native peoples rely on? | They relied upon a specially trained clergy to help their societies during periods of a crisis. |
| Finally, what did the great majority of early modern Europeans fear? | Finally, the great majority of early modern Europeans feared witches and pondered the meanings of their dreams. |
| What had to be kept in mine for the natives? | There were real differences that must be kept in mind. |
| What did Native Americans not distinguish? | Native Americans did not distinguish between the natural and the supernatural. |
| What two things did the Native Americans think as a single realm of being? | Native americans thought of the "material" and "spiritual" as a single realm of being. |
| By contrast, Protestant and Catholic traditions more often did what? | By contrast, protestant and Catholic traditions more often emphasized the gulf that separated the pure, spiritual beings in heaven-God, the angels, and saints-from sinful men and women stuck in an imperfect world filled with temptation and evil. |
| The British colonists, despite any broad similarities between their religion and the Native American religions, did not in any way accept what? | The British colonists, despite any broad similarities between their religion and the Native American religions, did not in any way accept any aspect of the native religions of valid. |
| While the Spanish Catholics made converting the Natives in their colonies a priority, it was not seen as what? | While the Spanish Catholics made converting the Natives in their colonies a priority, it was not seen as important in the British colonies. |
| What were they more interested in? | They were more interested in driving the Natives off of land they saw as being theirs by "God's will," than in converting them. |
| That's not to say there were no what? | That's not to say there were no attempts to convert natives in the British colonies. |
| Many missionaries did go to various what? | Many missionaries did go to various tribes and try to convert them to their particular religion with varying degrees of success. |
| What did some natives see? | Some natives saw the power of these new settlers and thought they must have a powerful God and did convert. |
| What did some pretend when converting? | Some pretended to convert to ease tensions. |
| What did some blend when converting? | Some blended some aspects of Christianity with their traditional beliefs. |
| But what did many natives refuse to do? | But many natives refused to give up those traditional beliefs at all. |
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