What were the customs and beliefs of the Cheyenne?
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The Cheyenne, like most Native Americans, were very spiritual. Great spirits lived in the sky, beneath the ground, and at each of the four directions.  Powerful spirits also lived in springs and streams, as well as hills and bluffs.  The Cheyenne believed in monsters that lived underwater, and ghosts that occasionally frightened people.\n\nThe Cheyenne revered plants and animals.  Many of their beliefs and rituals were centered on them. The most revered animal was the buffalo, the animal that provided for so many of their needs.  They prayed to the buffalo spirits and to the buffalo skull for the return of the herd. \n\nConsidered the voice of the Great Spirit, the drum figured prominently in ceremonies.  Its round shape symbolized the universe, and its steady beat represented the pulsing heart.
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Customs of any country are the set behaviors depicting it's culture and heritage. The factors affecting/shaping customs are as follows:-\na.Religion\nb.Geography\nc.Climate\nd.Cultures of neighbouring countries
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Sacagawea\n(c. 1790-1812 or 1884)\nA near-legendary figure in the history of the American West for her indispensible role on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Sacagawea has become an enigma for historians seeking to trace her later life.\n\nThe daughter of a Shoshone chief, Sacagawea was kidnapped by the Hidatsa when she was about ten years old and taken back to their village on the upper Missouri. There, she and another captive girl were purchased and wed by Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper.\n\nWhen Lewis and Clark engaged Charbonneau as an interpreter for their expedition in 1804, it was with the understanding that Sacagawea would also accompany them. Aside from her value as an interpreter, they expected her mere presence to speak well of them to Indians they would encounter along the way. As Clark noted in his journal, "a woman with a party of men is a token of peace."\n\nEight weeks before Lewis and Clark set out from the upper Missouri, a second token of peace was added to the expedition when Sacagawea gave birth to her first child, a son named Jean Baptiste Charbonneau but called Pomp or Pompey by Clark. Sacagawea carried her infant on a cradleboard as the "Corps of Discovery" headed upriver in April, 1805.\n\nFour months later, when the expedition had reached the navigable limits of the Missouri, Lewis set out to make contact with a Shoshone band, from whom he hoped to obtain horses for their trek across the mountains. When Sacagawea arrived to serve as interpreter, she found the band was led by her older brother, Cameahwait, who had become chief on their father's death. Deeply moved by this reunion, Sacagawea might have taken advantage of such an astounding coincidence to return to her people, but instead she helped the explorers secure the horses they needed and journeyed on with them and her husband to the Pacific.\n\nOn the return journey, Sacagawea and Charbonneau parted with Lewis and Clark at a Hidatsa village on the upper Missouri, and from this point the historical record of their lives becomes somewhat conjectural.\n\nCharbonneau evidently traveled to St. Louis at the invitation of William Clark, who had grown fond of the young Pompey and hoped he could induce his father to settle there. After a brief trial, however, Charbonneau returned to trapping, leaving his son in Clark's care. He worked for the American Fur Company, and later accompanied Prince Maximillian on the expedition that brought the artist Karl Bodmer to the upper Missouri in 1833.\n\nWhether Sacagawea accompanied Charbonneau to St. Louis is uncertain. Some evidence indicates that she did make this journey, then returned to the upper Missouri with her husband where she died in an epidemic of "putrid fever" late in 1812. Other accounts say that Sacagawea ultimately rejoined the Shoshone on their Wind River reservation and died there in 1884
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Powwow on the Reservation\nA Conversation with Scott Momaday\nby Claes Nordenskiöld \n"You will forgive me if I tell you that my people were Americans for thousands of years before your people were. The question is not how you can Americanize us but how we can Americanize you. We have been working at that for a long time. Sometimes we are discouraged at the results. But we will keep trying. And the first thing we want to teach you is that, in the American way of life, each man has respect for his brother’s vision." \n\n\nAnother said: “The question is not how you can Americanize us but how we can Americanize you.”(45) \n45. Quoted in Edgar S. Cahn, ed., Our Brother’s Keeper: The Indian in White America (New York and Cleveland: World, 1969), pp. 184, 175.
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Don't forget to choose the best answer.\nWe are real people answering real questions with real answers so please show your appreciation by choosing the best answer! \n\nBribe the tribe elder with some cows or chickens.
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Several things including Indian Removal, The Nullification crisis and introducing the "spoils system"\n\nFor more information, view the link below.
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They didn't have immigration laws back then.  The first native Americans that met the settlers liked and helped them.  Other tribes weren't so nice on the intrusion of their land,(the territory they were aware of and hunted in etc) even if it was other Native Americans.  You act like like they had maps and all abided by the same rules and cultural practices and met once a year to toke the peace pipe and compare notes.
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there are native american role models listen to fredom radio seek out independent news source, the native americans were victims of genocide and slavery in the name of christianity  and alot of the poulation is isolated from the trest of society on a reservation,one of the most murderous men towards them,who actually recorded his savage actions in ajournal,and can be found in archives is christopher columbus and we celebrate this monster with a national holiday try looking it up in the book or one of them disinformation you are being lied to
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in the early 19th century,the area around Independence and St.Joseph,Missouri was the "far west". Any farther west was for the most part wild and unknown country. The native tribes considered the erosion causing "rolling carts" and the immigrants travelling them to be trespassers. Tribal relations with the Europeans would decide how  these disruptive white people would be dealt with. It is only after many incidences of treachery, slaughter of cherished food stock animals, land-grubbing,and mass immigration that the natives ran out of answers to the great white problems which seemed to divide their culture with roads and unwanted problems.The phrase "Manifest Destiny" seemed to imply that it was a divine right of the settlers to plant themselves anywhere they wanted to. Often small infractions became larger problems. Misunderstandings with native culture became prejudice and hatred. Native misunderstandings of caucasian culture seemed to prophecize the end of their millenium old customs and traditions. When the trails to the west became more proliferant and widespread and immigration robbed natives of sacred ground,food,and heritage--the tribes retaliated in the only way left available to them--with the same hostilities they used against other imposing tribes. You can only imagine their shock and horror at the explosion of migration when the railroads were built. WHen the Santa Fe trail was completed-the expansion of the US was still in full bloom-many people were seeking the gold and silver fields of New Mexico,Arizona,and California. The southwestern tribes were neither allegiant to Mexico or the Spanish,and now, alien  Europeans were coming to stake their own claims,and subdivert the land with their own strange customs and mannerisms. By the time Geronimo died in the early 20th century,most of these tribes had been secluded to small reservations or removed completely to Oklahoma--
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Many native american tribes believed that birds are from the spirit world.Perhaps a dead realitive was saying good morning or letting you know that they love you. I am sure it was good. How cocl was it?
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Colorado had Commanche, Pueblo, and Apache Indians.  Wisconsin had the Winnepago and the Sioux.  The Tlinkit Indians lived in Ketchikan, Alaska.
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perhaps the four directions in american indian spirituality?  but you probably already knew that, eh lakota bob?\n\nas to the previous question, why not compare and find similarities throughout all traditions?  why not seek out what unifies us instead of separates us?
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alot of canadian myth and superstition is carried over from the scottish,irish and english settlers. Fairies are very heavily featured and can be quite nasty. These little people are found however in many peoples folkstories to explain the inexplicable. They are myths of course and kids are allowed to go where they want.\nGypsies in Canada are pretty far and few between as far as I know.
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The Native Americans ,although unique people,are PEOPLE.They have their differences too.And the Chiefs were often at odds with each other on this subject.Many tribes split because of it.Some peaceful leaders,like washakie of the Shoshones made peace with the whites,while those like Quanna Parker of the Comanches fought desperately to resist removal.The Seminoles under Osceola,and Billy Bowlegs led their people into the everglades to avoid removal.So you see,they all dealt with things differently.The Natives are not all one people,but MANY individuals,with many individual leaders,tribes,ect.
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"Tecumseh felt that the land belonged to the natives and that signing a treaty with the Americans would mean giving up the native way of life.  He believed that is was the obligation of the natives to band together to fight the Americans as one united group and dreamed of a Native American nation stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico." I found this on a website and it goes into more detail but that is the gist of it. Quote: www.westliberty.com
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personally, I would find a native-american (indian) and ask him or her. they know the history and habits of most animals and have a sacred place in their hearts for the eagle. i would try the cherokee reservation website, to begin with. Other than than,any on line encyclopedia can help. try google
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At one time there were hundreds of separate Chumash villages here in Santa Barbara. Some villages were as large as towns while others were quite small. The villages were constructed on high ground near lagoons, creek mouths, lakes, or springs. The largest villages were built along the mainland coast near the Santa Barbara Channel. Some other Indian people had similar customs, but no other Native Americans lived in exactly the same way as the Chumash people. Their invention and use of the plank canoe, their extraordinary baskets, tools and bead making, their customs and beliefs, and their craftmanship are what make the Chumash Indians unique. Various groups spoke distinct languages.\n\nmore information below