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Native Americans
usually didn't really develop their religious doctrine. In their time
they needed to focus on what they did in nature and spirit so they didn't
have time to investigate. The spiritual experiences of ordinary people
and religious specialists, judgment of the elders, and the welfare of
the people all came together in a different way in each generation to
make Native American religion. Dreams and visions were a very important
part of religion and beliefs. One example is the 19th century movement
known as the Ghost Dance, which was from the Lakota in the annihilation
at the Wounded Knee. This example came from the West from one man's vision
of the white race's defeat and the buffalo's return.
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