Expedition Earth: UAF Fall 2010: Spirit

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Spirit

Napoleon talks about how important the spirits of the animals are, and the spirits of the body are. As soon as someone/something dies, it starts the process all over again of being a baby animal or person. When a person or animal died the people would have a feast to honor them in hopes that the spirit would come back. Was there any feasts after the Great Death? I don't know if someone mentioned this already. Just curious.

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Cody WinslowSeptember 15, 2010 at 1:32 PM
I do not believe that there were any feasts afte the Great Death, due to the fact that most of the Alaskan Natives were mostly silent about what happend and the Westerners told them that the spirit world was a way to honor the devil.
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