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Jesse Cornplanter (Hayonhwonhish) (Life time: 1889–1957)  · Public domain  · a work of art, not a likeness

Tradition collection 47 records

Native North America

Traditions of the peoples of North America, as publicly recorded.

  • Extent North America, antiquity to the present.
  • Holds 27 gods · 12 places · 5 traditions
Meet the gods

Before you count

A great deal is deliberately not public, and this site does not attempt to reconstruct it.

What else it is missing

Gods · 27

The gods, and the company they keep

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 27 gods

More of its best-linked gods

In company

Pantheons, read from the members’ own records — never from a fixed roster.

Places · 12

Archaeological sites and places

Every one is recorded as an archaeological site — a culture’s cities and monuments, not evidence of worship there. The most widely linked first.

All 12 places

12 places 12 with a point on the map 2 with a date 12 archaeological sites

See them on the atlas

Traditions · 5

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

Also here · 1

Also in this collection

Kinds it holds only one or two of, each with its own page.

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 47 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
67
With references
8
Undated
44
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • A great deal is deliberately not public, and this site does not attempt to reconstruct it.
  • Nineteenth-century ethnography dominates the sources and was often collected without consent.
  • Nation-level distinctions are frequently collapsed upstream; where the record says only 'Native American religion', the page says that.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds none.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

Cwbednarz at en.wikipedia · Public domain

Keep going

Walk Native North America another way.

A family tree as the accounts give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Iktomi’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Indian Shaker Church