Michigan Camp Meeting 2024: As For Me and My House

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Native American Culture & Religious Beliefs

Fred Rogers

01 A Brief History of First Nations People

02 Native Peoples Bible and Jesus Knowledge

03 Native Peoples Similarities to Israel

04 Seventh Sacred Direction Belief

05 Native Belief on the Dead

You are about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2024 Michigan Conference Camp Meeting held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Our dear Heavenly Father, we come to You today to thank You for the blessing You've given us.

We pray that You will guide and direct us as we study today.

Help us to learn things, Father, that will enlighten us in the study of Jesus.

And Father, we just thank you so much for the opportunity we have of studying together and we pray that you'll bless Us for your Holy Spirit is our prayer in Jesus name.

Amen For those of you that walked in late I said after I gave all the things that I did yesterday that I usually stress that I'm not trying to start the Indian Wars again because some people would look at that in the way of saying, hey, we were treated so badly we need to stand up and do whatever.

We've got to leave it in the hands of the Lord, right?

So I didn't have that problem because I grew up in Oklahoma where the land rush took place.

They were surrounded by non-native people.

And so you just had to live and get along.

So I didn't experience the reservation lifestyle, which I feel very sorry for some of those individuals that did do that, and I know a lot of people that got off those reservations so that they wouldn't have to live that life and they could live a full life without any problems or whatever.

But we do know that what happened to the Native Americans took away a lot of their culture.

My father attended Chilaco Indian School, which is in Oklahoma, and it was interesting.

You know, he didn't talk a lot about it, but he did tell us some stories.

He didn't really have the culture anyway.

Didn't want to, but my father was so honored that they finally, finally he ran away and they didn't go look for him.

His last stunt was he got in a race with the wagon pulling, I thought it was a milk wagon, but my brother said it was a garbage wagon.

And he got in a race with another wagon and they strew stuff all over the campus and everything.

And so when he ran away there, they said, we don't want him back.

So that was kind of some of my culture, elder that he was talking about culture earlier, just a bit ago.

And so anyway, we're gonna look at, did the native people, what did they think about the Bible Jesus?

I think I'm going to show some things that are really going to blow your mind.

Now, many native people claim to be traditionalists.

A traditionalist means that you want to live as your ancestors lived, and you want to worship and so forth as your ancestors.

So you want to live that traditional life.

And there's some good things in living that traditional life.

The Pima Indians, for instance, out in Arizona, they have the highest occurrence of diabetes of any ethnic group.

Even They have the highest occurrence of diabetes of any native group.

Years ago they split and there was a part of them that said, we want to live our traditional life.

Now the Pimas in Arizona have the highest occurrence of diabetes of any ethnic group.

The group that moved down to, I'm getting into something else, I guess I'm, anyway, I'll be okay.

They moved down there, lived their traditional life, and guess what?

So at any rate, you can take something from that about the lifestyle that they were living at that time.

At any rate, these people are traditionalists.

And when I talk to people, I say, I'm a traditionalist.

I Say, yeah, I'm a Christian traditionalist because I want to practice what our native people practice in their religion.

And you're going to be surprised what we find out about that.

So we have those individuals that want to follow some of the traditional things.

And you know, the interesting thing about it is many of them don't even know what their ancestors believed.

They don't know what their ancestors practiced.

Therefore, you know, they claim that we don't believe in Jesus because we're traditionalists and our people didn't believe in Jesus.

I said, wait a minute, maybe you need to back up and do a little looking into your ancestry to see if they did or did not believe in Jesus.

So at any rate, we're going to take a look at this.

And did native people believe in the Bible Jesus?

So that's what we're going to look at today.

In our first 2 lessons, we established that Native people were living by the concepts of the Bible, you know, being happy, being honest, being kind, and we went all over those things, the fruits of the Spirit, and we know that they did that.

So remember...let me see here, I didn't go there.

Should we be able to use the same Bible concepts to establish what we believe?

I mean, you know, those are the things that becomes a part of Christianity, being that kind of a person, being a kind person, honest person, and that type of thing.

And so the native people were very honest.

I could tell you stories about individuals telling about 1 individual that was wanting to do some exploring, a native place, and so he found a native person that was going to be his guide, and would be his guide for a certain amount of money, so he gave him some gold, a piece of gold, to guide him, and he was at this lodge that this Indian lived in and he was surprised that the Indian took the piece of gold and went over and laid it up on a log on his cabin outside of his cabin.

He said, there's not a white man within 100 miles.

Okay, what is the central theme of the Bible?

So if that's the central theme of the Bible and the native people were practicing Bible concepts, Hey, maybe they had Jesus in their sights.

John 14, verse 6, Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.

So they need to know Jesus if they're going to be in the kingdom, right?

It said, nobody comes to the Father but by Me.

So, hopefully, they're going to have Jesus in their lives during this time.

Now, I told you I'd bring my books, and I did bring my books.

And I don't have a table in here to spread them out.

But at any rate, if you want to take a look at these when it's over, you're welcome to.

If you want to take pictures of them, write them down, what they are, whatever.

That book right there, that's what I'm showing up there, which is the history of the Cherokee Indians by Emmett Starr and interesting thing.

Cherokee member Emmett Starr was born in 1870 and later became a physician.

He graduated from Barnes Medical College at St.

Now he was probably the first Cherokee Indian that became a physician.

I know he was not the first Indian that became a physician because it was a lady that became a physician.

And I don't know anything about her history.

I had her name, I don't have it with me right now, but I did know her name.

And she became the first Native American to go to medical school and become a physician.

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Native American Culture & Religious Beliefs

02 Native Peoples Bible and Jesus Knowledge

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Native American Culture & Religious Beliefs

01 A Brief History of First Nations People

56m

Native American Culture & Religious Beliefs

03 Native Peoples Similarities to Israel

58m

Native American Culture & Religious Beliefs

05 Native Belief on the Dead

53m

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02 What the Enemy Knows About Culture That We Don’t

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06 Reconciliation, Unity, and Latter Rain Power

59m

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05 Reconciliation, Unity, and Latter Rain Power

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04 Reconciliation, Unity, and Latter Rain Power

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The Godhead Part 2

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