Conception of the Sacred Situations, places viewed as sacred not profane. For Native Americans, spiritual permeates even the most casual and personal attitudes. The person is essentially spiritual to the Native American. A priest or shaman will help one deal with the sacred. Traditions of Judaism and Christianity parallel those of Native Americans - story of Samuel, seminaries for youth 2.
Religion uses ritual to manage strains of everyday life.
Blessingway of Navajo- peace, harmony, and good things. The Mountainway Chant would be used to cure gastrointestinal and other illnesses. Most Christians would expect that being religious and spiritual would lead them to have good hope, to acquire property, to have blessings on all their domestic and social life For the Apache, ceremonies were used to set things right, to ward off evil, to cure Many rituals of the Catholic Church have their parallel in the Blessing Way and other Navajo ceremonies 5. A major function of belief is to support rituals. Native Americans had beliefs similar to Judaism and Christianity concerning creation, the solar system, and acts of nature.