North America

The family spreads across northern and eastern North America.

European settlement of North America crossed this ocean, and the crossing narrative entered its religious self-understanding.

Western Apache country is east-central Arizona.

Bear ceremonialism, including the ritual treatment of the killed bear, is documented across the northern peoples of the continent.

The centre of Plains ceremonial life, and the source of the Lakota sacred pipe.

The trickster of the Great Basin, California and the Southwest, creator and fool in the same cycle.

The deer dance and the deer as a being that gives itself to the hunter under an agreement.

Water, swiftness and the coming of rain in Southwestern iconography.

The eagle carries prayers upward, and eagle feathers are restricted objects in law and in practice.

First reported near Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966-67, the Mothman legend is attested in North America.

The otter of the medicine bundle, and a helper in several origin accounts of the diving for earth.

Widely an omen of death, and among several peoples an animal it is dangerous to name at night.

The movement is North American in origin, though its literature travelled widely.

The Great Hare of the Eastern Woodlands, a creator and a trickster at once.

Raven of the Northwest Coast, who steals the light and is not thanked for it.

The first salmon ceremony of the Northwest Coast, which returns the bones to the water.

Spider Woman, who taught weaving and who is a creator in the Southwest.

Thunderbird covers distinct beings in a number of unrelated North American traditions, and the singular English name conceals real differences. Treating them as one pan-Indian sky god flattens traditions that do not agree with each other.

Turtle Island, the continent carried on a turtle's back.

The wiindigo belongs to Algonquian-speaking peoples of the northern forests, Anishinaabe, Cree, Innu and their neighbours, and is specific to a landscape where winter starvation was a real prospect.

The whale hunt of the Northwest Coast and the Arctic, and the ceremonies that surround it.

The wolf as teacher and as the model for how a hunting band should behave.

Loma Linda lies in southern California.

The valley lies in the North American interior west.

The Great Lakes country of North America.

The umbrella region for the many distinct Native nations, each catalogued individually where a dedicated religion exists, among them Lakota Religion, Dine (Navajo) Religion and Anishinaabe Religion.

The Four Corners country of North America is the Dine homeland.

The Great Lakes country of North America is the Ojibwe homeland.

The Great Lakes and the northern plains, on both sides of the Canada and United States border.

Founded and headquartered in the United States and taught by post, which is how it reached members far outside the lodge cities the older orders worked in.

A society of one campus. It takes fifteen Yale seniors a year and has never chartered a chapter anywhere else, which is what separates it from the national fraternities it is usually grouped with.