Tradition
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Most of the everyday habits of Native American tribes are based on rules, stories and family heritages told by the community’s oral narrative. They use these kinds of speeches to entertain, to organize and to regulate as well. Their most popular topic is death, but they do not think of it as a disaster, rather than the beginning of a new era. They believe in celebrating it with special ceremonies, they have a faith that without it, harmful effects will come to the human beings. As Reverend Karalee Hawkins Boyle puts it “among others (tribes), it serves as a way station for individuals destined for reincarnation” (Death and Dying from a Native American Spirituality Perspective, 29).