"Lame Deer"

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The writer of this paper discusses and illustrates several Native American themes and links Native American religious practices with religion in America. Native American religion illustrates how far American religion has come from the land and the natural world. It explains how Native Americans have always relied on natural symbols to represent their religious and spiritual beliefs, while American religion is more concerned with man-made symbols such as the Bible and churches. It states that the Native American spiritually begins within, and that is where true spirituality always begins, regardless of symbol or meaning.

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"This perhaps is one of the major differences between Native American religious beliefs, and Christian beliefs. Lame Deer is right. In modern America, we are "usually too busy" to notice what is going on around us, and we shut ourselves up in cities, unaware of the natural world around us. The Native Americans look toward nature as their spiritual leader, and this theme is common in their rituals, in their legends, and in their everyday lives, and so they carry their spirituality with them always, rather than finding it in a book, or in a church, or a religious meeting."

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