Belief Quote by Joseph Boyden

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

— Deacon Jones

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that…

— William Robertson Smith

Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.

— Nevill Drury

Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of…

— Bryan Fischer

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which…

— Alice Walker

“The spiritual rituals of Native American Christian communities are perceived as exotic pagan practices that dabble in syncretism and are inferior to the rich…

— Soong-Chan Rah

One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

— Terence McKenna

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits…

— David Liss

It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice…

— Joseph Bruchac

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

— Marshall McLuhan

We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully and I hope…

— Adam Beach

The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San Francisco Peaks…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr