"medicinemen" - 1 õppematerjal

Powerpoint teemal Native Americans

Mats and wood screens divided the longhouse into separate rooms. Each longhouse housed an entire clan as many as 60 people! Tepees Tepees are tentlike American Indian houses. Tepees are good houses for people who are always on the move. Religion They believed in a good and Supreme Being, and in an Evil Spirit, and recognized the existence of inferior good and evil spirits. They believed in a future state of existence, and there were no infidels among them. "medicinemen," were their physicians, priests, and prophets, who on all occasions, used incantations. Problems When the white settlers came , the Indians lost their rich land, and most of their customs and beliefs , but before the white men's invasion they lived in harmony with nature . Widespread epidemic diseases wich killed millions of people--possibly in excess of 90% of the population in the hardest hit areas--and creating one of "the greatest human catastrophe in history.