[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d be real careful about Native American lore. Stuff about coping in the wilderness, fine. But no stuff about drumming up spirits or some nebulous “Great Spirit” in a pantheon.

[lavaroise]

Anything to invoke spirits for one’s own material psychological benefit on Earth is indeed power misleadings of creatures of God against God, if one believes.

[Paladin2]

"Congress, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, "acknowledged the historical debt which this Republic of the United States of America owes to the Iroquois Confederacy and other Indian Nations for their demonstration of enlightened, democratic principles of government and their example of a free association of independent Indian Nations."

Here is the wording of H. Con. Res. 331:"

etc.