Terraced adobe houses with blue-trimmed doors at Taos Pueblo rise toward forested mountains.

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Native American Religions

Church Directory · Non-Christian · Indigenous and Traditional

the ceremonial traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America, including the Native American Church.

Religious Art & Images

Painted formline figures crown the Kakaso'Las totem pole at Stanley Park in Vancouver, a thunderbird spreading its wings at the top.

Art Entry Northwest Coast Formline and the Crest Pole A visual grammar of ovoids and U-forms that writes family crests in cedar — the pole at Brockton Point, carved by Ellen Neel, stands in public where its predecessors have stood since the 1880s. Formline system centuries old; pictured pole 1955 Art Entry Potlatch Masks — Image Withheld Masks danced at the potlatch open and transform as the ancestor arrives. This page shows no image: the masks are community-governed regalia, and their photographs are published here only with the owning community's consent, which has not been sought for specific pieces. Tradition continuous; confiscation era 1885–1951

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