"Other ways of knowing," aka Different Cognitive Styles

[okasha]

115. Please see my post #103, above.

I would change your first paragraph only by substituting "expressed" for "dealt extensively with." The Sun Dance, which was revived in secret by Frank Fools Crow and Bill Eagle Feather in the 1930's, the Ghost Dance, revived in 1973 during the siege of Pine Ridge, and all the rest of Native American ceremony consist of doing religion, not theorizing about it. Ie., they're praxis.

Human relgionship to the earth, the Creator and other beings as taught by the elders and shamans are pretty well covered by the three points in 103. They're the theology behind the praxis.

I'm not sure what you mean by "violating such events." Certainly there were consequences for violating certain social norms. Among the Lakota, banishment was the punishment for killing a member of one's own band. Tschunka Witco ("Crazy Horse&quot lost his status as a Shirt Wearer, a group of young men charged with providing for widows, orphans, and others who couldn't hunt for themselves, over his involvement in a sex scandal, to use the tabloid term. Again, these were practical ways of dealing with a difficulty, the means of expressing harmony rather than the justification or explanation of it.