Ruth Underhill rationalizes that both these groups also had little time to dream up cosmologies as hunters spent the majority of time on their own, away from groups, resulting in their "contact with the Supernaturals [to be a] solitary, personal vision, " while gatherers, who were a community that were able to share beliefs simply rationalized the pattern of associating their religion with what they needed most, therefore creating rituals for dates and times of the year that related to agriculture (15-16). The association of supernatural forces and nature in the Native American culture's ...

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The myopic nature of this troubling view was lamented in one of the most famous speeches ever given, "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."... New Spain as described by Christopher Columbus, (with his descriptions of plant life, exotic animals, and the "natives, ") appears a very different place than that as described by John Winthrop, whose inspiration seems rooted in the "Lawe of Grace or the Gospell." ...

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