Definition|History|Popularity|Mystery|Cultural
Value|Philosophical Value|
Spiritual Value|Hidden
Symbols|Sacred Knowledge
Native American Art
Sacred Knowledge
Native American arts and
crafts are more than paint, clay, minerals and carved wood. They
are tablets that continue to record beliefs and traditions. They
express history and spirituality. They communicate appreciation
for life and reverence for the gifts and blessings many of us
take for granted or feel are our due.
Perhaps most significant
is that by recreating these ancestral mementos, tribal peoples
show respect to their elders, who for thousands of years continued
to teach the sacred knowledge to countless generations with painstaking
accuracy.
European settlers challenged
this knowledge time and again with an influx of social and technological
influences and Christian beliefs, yet this knowledge has remained
as pure as the truth on which it is based.
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