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Unit 1 – Interactions North America, 1491–1607
Topic 1.2
What primarily distinguished the religious beliefs of Mississippian cultures from those of Pacific Northwest tribes?
Pacific Northwest tribes did not practice any form of spiritual rituals.
Mississippian cultures practiced mound-building for ceremonial purposes while Pacific Northwest tribes centered their spirituality around totem pole carvings.
Both had identical belief systems, with no distinctions at all.
Only Mississippians believed in an afterlife
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