Indigenous Sacred Ways

Question 1

First nations native to a region.

Answer 1

Indigenous

Question 2

Since indigenous cultures participate fully in the enviroment, healing partakes of several factors: physiological, astronomical, behavioral, and spiritual. Good medicine may include herbal mixtures, songs to ancestors or divinities, art, good social co-operation, family counseling, or sacrificial offerings.

Answer 2

Medicine

Question 3

Storytelling and singing are the vehicles for teaching and passing on sacred knowledge among indigenous peoples with no books.

Answer 3

Oral Tradition

Question 4

an indigenous people’s medicine healer and leader of sacred ways; an inspired, ecstatic, and charismatic man or woman with the power to control spirits, often by incarnating them or making out-of-body journeys.

Answer 4

Shaman