I read a little on the religion of Nigeria once. Found it to be pretty interesting. I was always curious as to what the native Americans believed in. Sometimes we tend to think of the major religions only. But, there are a lot of religions that are indigenous. I'm gonna try to read a little on the religion of native Americans. I think that would be interesting. Maybe someone has other examples of indigenous religions. Curious as to how they evolved.

How do they evolve?

Sorry. Come about or grow.

both really start with come about?

Kind of interested in their origin.

Now, let me ask a question. Why are we talking about semantics when I was kind of interested in indigenous religions? How about this. The origin and development. Is that okay Caroline?

If you want to look into the spiritual beliefs of the Native Americans, you should begin with a good survey anthropology text of the North American Indian tribes. All of the tribes have their own idiosyncratic belief systems. Because their spiritual beliefs were tied into their daily lives directly, you pretty much have to understand the ways in which the different tribes lived (e.g. the ways the found food--agriculture, hunting, gathering fishing--societal structure, family structure, intertribal and intratribal relations).

In the North American Indian cultural anthropology course I took, we read This Land Was Theirs by Wendell H. Oswalt. It was a very good book, although dry and loaded with information, but looked into all of the major tribes of North America. It can easily be understood by anyone that is not necessarily an anthropology major so it isn't an overly technical read. I linked the edition of the book that we read in my class, which can be purchase used cheaply off of Amazon. I am sure the other previous seven editions are also good, and the newest 9th edition seems to fix some small organization gripes, but the histories of these tribes obviously changes very little.

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I dont know Elmud, why are we talking about semantics? I asked you how did they evolve in accordance to your last sentence 'curious how they evolve' which you went on to say 'come about or grow?' What has semanitcs got to do with the origins of indeginous tribes beliefs and how thier beliefs come about and grow? Who mentioned semantics?

I'm so cornfused.lol. sorry.

Apology accepted. How did this happen, did i misread your post?