Mapuche religion is the traditional Native American religion of the Mapuche people. It is practiced primarily in south-central Chile and southwest Argentina. The tradition has no formal leadership or
A machi standing on their rewe, the timber structure they climb onto while in a trance-state
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, spi
Totem pole in Vancouver.
Yup'ik shaman exorcising evil spirits from a sick boy. Nushagak, Alaska, 1890s.
Dancing at a pole-raising celebration in Klawock, Alaska.