Before Religion

“Before Religion,” an Outcome archive entry by Sawatis Frushell. The entry belongs to the crosscurrents collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses It is a classic misinterpretation to refer to all Natives as always being in harmony with themselves and their surroundings. As in, categorizing, denomination, caste, grade,order and grouping. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including INTRODUCTION It is a classic misinterpretation to refer to allNatives as always being in harmony withthemselves and their surroundings. As in,categorizing, denomination, caste, grade,order and grouping. With the above sentences in mind, I’ll refer toonly my people’s past.We weren’t always at peace or in harmonywith ourselves and the earth. We struggledand fought with our own people. Wesuffered insult and reproach and turned toviolence in return for that insult and reproach. At one time, we were anything but united. Welived the epitome of survival.We needed guidance. Our understanding ofcreation was there in our minds. Our need tostop feuding was also there in our minds. Wewere on the brink of destruction to oursurroundings and ourselves.. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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