Spirituality (or that word I can not say)

The Native Americans depended on one thing always which was their spirituality. The Male Native Americans went through vision quests and one of the most popular and well known is Plenty Coups’ vision quest. Vision quests are is the practice of praying to obtain a spirit power. The quest was performed with males and the men were sent to a isolated place where they would encounter a guardian spirit. For four days and nights the adolescents males would go without food water and fire and their bodies longing for the spirits. The spirits were called little persons or guardians. In the quest the men would see supernatural spiritual forces. They would receive their powers from three different types of animals an eagle or a bear or even a bison. Some of the most common places and where archaeologists found remnants of the vision quest is the Pryor Mountains.# # One of the most famous visions quest is Plenty Coups’ his vision quest occurred in the Crazy Mountains. When Plenty Coups was 10 years old he headed up to Crazy Mountains with nothing but him. It was midnight and he heard a voice then saw a person not just any person but the spirit his elders talked about. The person was gone but then he saw a buffalo bull standing right in front of him. The bull then turned into a man in a buffalo robe. “Come” The man said directing Plenty Coups to follow him. The shaking of the mans rattle lead Plenty Coups to a knoll and made him sit. “Look” the man pointed outward. There was a hole in the ground, where the buffalo came out of the hole, but as soon as all the buffalo were out of the hole they disappeared all of them were gone. Not one was in sight on the whole Plains. The mans rattle was shaken again and he yelled “Look!” Again Plenty Coup looked at the hole in the ground and more bulls and cows and calves poured out of the hole, but they were different. The unknown type of buffalo had spots ate grass and laid differently than any ordinary buffalo. Just like the buffalo before they disappeared back into the hole in the ground. “Do you understand this which I have shown you, Plenty Coups? The man asked him. Plenty Coups was confused so he replied with a quick no. The two men traveled through the hole in the ground they reached an house. At the house there was an old man dozing away. The man talked to Plenty Coup asking him if he knew this old man if he recognized him. The reason why he asked Plenty Coup is because that old man was him. The old man with the house was Plenty Coup in the future. The house then disappeared with the other two men. The trees around Plenty blew down except one. The man then came back and explained to him why this one tree was still standing. It was the home of a Chickadee bird. # The spirituality of the Native Americans is what made their lifestyle different from everyone elses they put religion first its what made Chiefs such as Plenty Coups.
by Kacyee