The indigenous spiritual traditions of North America are not one tradition but hundreds — as diverse as the Haudenosaunee confederacy and the Diné Nation, the Lakota and the Anishinaabe, the Pueblo peoples and the Pacific Northwest nations — each with its own cosmology, ceremony, relationship to the land, and understanding of the sacred. What many of these traditions share is a vision of the world as alive and relational — humans not above nature but within it, accountable to the community of beings that includes animals, plants, ancestors, and the land itself. These are not ancient relics but living, evolving traditions maintained by communities who have survived extraordinary pressure and are still practicing, still teaching, still insisting on their continuity.
Rumi