American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia

“American Indians are the only Americans whose entire heritage is in the USA, has always been here, and is to be preserved here and nowhere else”. We read this in the entry on Retraditionalism and Identity Movements in this new encyclopedia. Terminology is not easy when we consider the many tribes and names for Native Americans, as well as all the cultural and anthropological, political and legal issues associated with the history of Native Americans and current challenges still faced.

In that entry, too, emphasis is placed on the attempt “to return to a self‐defined set of traditions – collective...