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tobacco
thumb|Tobacco drying kiln in Myrtleford|Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia, 2018. This kiln was built in 1957, and moved to Rotary Park in 2000. Kilns of this design were built from the early 1930s through to the late 1960s. thumb |Basma tobacco leaves drying in the sun at Pomak village in [[Xanthi, Greece]]
Datura stramonium
species of plant
totem
thumb|A totem pole in [[Ottawa, Ontario, Canada]]
rainmaking rites
weather modification ritual
Thunderbird
legendary creature in certain North American indigenous peoples' history and culture
Hierochloe odorata
aromatic herb which grows in northern Eurasia and North America
potlatch
thumb|right|The Kwakwaka'wakw continue the practice of potlatch. Illustrated here is ''Wawadit'la'' in Thunderbird Park, Victoria, B.C., a big house built by Chief [[Mungo Martin in 1953. Wealthy, prominent hosts would have a Big House specifically for potlatching and for housing guests.]]
sun dance
ceremony practiced by some Indigenous people in North America
ceremonial pipe
ceremonial smoking pipe, used by Native Americans
Native American Church
indigenous religion in the USA
Willamette Meteorite
iron-nickel meteorite from the state of Oregon, largest found in North America
kachina
thumb|Palahiko Mana, Water-Drinking Maiden, Hopi 1899. She wears a headdress with stepped Earth signs and corn ears. Water Drinking Woman seems to be a name for the corn itself, one of many forms of the Corn Maidens. thumb|Drawings of kachina dolls, Plate 11 from an 1894 anthropology book Dolls of the Tusayan Indians by Jesse Walter Fewkes. A kachina (; Hopi: katsina , plural katsinim ) is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo peoples, Native American cultures located in the southwestern part of the United States. In Pueblo cultures, kachina rites are practiced by the Hopi, Hop
sweat lodge
hut made of natural materials, used by indigenous peoples for a purification ceremony
Calia secundiflora
species of plant
Wakan Tanka
Lakota word for the Divine
sandpainting
thumb|Rangoli, a popular form of Indian sand paintings, in [[Singapore.]] Sandpainting is the art of pouring coloured sands, and powdered pigments from minerals or crystals, or pigments from other natural or synthetic sources onto a surface to make a fixed or unfixed sand painting. Unfixed sand paintings have a long established cultural history in numerous social groupings around the globe, and are often temporary, ritual paintings prepared for religious or healing ceremonies. This form of art is also referred to as drypainting.
Native American religions
the systems of faith and worship of the Native Americans
black drink
ritual beverage used in purification ceremonies brewed by Native Americans in the Southeastern United States
catlinite
thumb|Native American, Plains (unidentified). Pipe bowl representing owl, early 20th century. Catlinite or pipestone, 3 × 5 in. (9.5 × 13.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum thumb|Protohistoric Catlinite pipe, probably late 17th century Ioway, from the Wanampito site in [[Iowa.]]
charnel house
vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored
vision quest
rite of passage in some Native American cultures
Huron Carol
song
Black Elk Speaks
book by John Neihardt
Eagle feather law
US statute
medicine bag
traditional North American Indian container for various items of supernatural power
Hopi mythology
Native American mythology
Underwater panther
indigenous folk monster
Taki Unquy
indigenous movement in the Peruvian Andes during the 16th century
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
United States law
Kuksu
religion in Northern California
Midewiwin
thumb|300px|Midew in a mide-wiigiwaam (medicine lodge). The Midewiwin (in syllabics: , also spelled Midewin and Medewiwin) or the Grand Medicine Society is a religious society of some of the Indigenous peoples of the Maritimes, New England and Great Lakes regions in North America. Its practitioners are called Midew, and the practices of Midewiwin are referred to as Mide. Occasionally, male Midew is called Midewinini, which is sometimes translated into English as "medicine man".
sacred bundle
wrapped collection of sacred items, held by a designated carrier, used in indigenous American ceremonial cultures
Mitakuye Oyasin
phrase from the Lakota language reflecting interconnectedness