We had an assembly at a grade school I was at. It featured a husband and wife team who did Native American dances. It was very cool.
It was the wife’s job to do all the talking. She spoke about many of the native practices. She debunked certain myths. For example, she said, there was no such thing as rain dances.

Another of the things she said was that it was not true that Native Americans worshiped animal spirits and trees and other natural things. She said they believed in ONE god, the creator, and she made a gesture that encompassed everyone in the gym. I got the impression the gesture was meant to say, “Like you do.” She was pretty adamant and fierce about it, too.

Was she right? I don’t think she can possibly speak on behalf of the hundreds of tribes that were scattered from Alaska to South America, who developed as many religions as there were tribes, over the course of the 20,000 years since they arrived, but she seemed to be.