What beliefs do the majority of the native american society hold? What category of religion would it fall into? Animism?
Actually, most native Americans are Christian, because we made a mess of their world centuries ago. This is one of the best sites on the net for what's left of it: http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legends-AB.html x
i follow native american ways , in the old traditons , and it is a mix of polyth, monothy, animisum , metaphysical , i say the mono beucase of the christian mess, but also the bleive in WAKAN TATANKA- in lakota it means great mystery , which could be interpated many ways . the poly is the beilve in grandfather stone , grandmother sky etc , anim- well speaks for it self , and meta well how the veiws are of sacred things and stones and what not medince bags and herbs , every thing has life and can effect the said person . if u want to ask more u can leave me a message or what ever just some thoughts to thing on