The common ritual of native traditions shown in the video on Aborigines of Australia, when the young girl was painted in white to symbolize purity and her transition into womanhood.

According to most native religions, this is not separate from (and instead interacts with) reality.

This common characteristic of native traditions describes a society or culture that has not developed the use of writing.

Usually respected to the point of being worshiped with animals spoken of as "brothers" and "sisters"

Actions often repeated in well-known ways that help to give order and meaning to life.

The name of the pipeline being protested by over 100 tribes from across North America.

Most native religions believe the result of doing this will be to bring disaster upon the people.

This common characteristic explains why we are unable to describe a specific set of standard characteristics and practices when studying native religions.

Graduations, funerals, and bar/bat mitzvah's are all examples.

Typically, native religions serve to highlight this with the natural world.

In class, this two word term was defined by the narrator of the ritual clip as “not available for export”

Generally describes the member of the community in native traditions who has ability to leave reality to travel into other worlds.

This typical worship practice is relied on for the passing of tradition.

Instead of a system of gods, most native religions focus their daily lives on trying to do this.

As a result of being typically preliterate, native religions recounted these while rituals were being performed to pass tradition along.

By doing this the people of the Indonesian village pledged for the purity off their village; acts as almost as going under oath in court.

The North American plains indian tribe of the Mandan performed dance rituals meant to ask the great spirit to send this as food.

Explains the stressing of ritual" as doing so may bring disaster.

The two rituals which are usually of most importance to native religions.

Rituals that mark the transition from one state in life to another

The common characteristic which best explains the speaker's strong connection to the sacred land of her people and requiring her to be there in order to be "spiritually whole"

During christmas time in this modern day country, locals still participate in a ritual where they dress up as bears in order to ward off evil spirits.

The way in which native traditions express good and evil forces such as spirits, gods, witches, demons; helps to understand the causes of bad fortune (sickness, death, disease)

Term meaning non-religious and used to describe some modern day rites of passage rituals such as graduation and retirement parties.

The aspect of a rites of passage ritual which is heavily concentrated on due to it usually being a time full of uncertainty.