An article on Freemasonry and Native Americans

While looking for information on possibly how Native Americans might be initiated, I came across this document from the 2004 Annual California Masonic Symposium on Freemasonry and Native American Traditions. It is about ten pages long and in pdf format. So you would need Acrobat reader.  I will read this later tonight and give my feedback.

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Re: An article on Freemasonry and Native Americans

It was an iteresting article with some good points, though it seemed to oversimplify things a bit. For an article that isn't uncommon though. No culture is static and unchanging, that does not influence and resieve influence from its surroundings. Further, in many things there seems to be primal connections found throughout the world that while simular don't nessesarily mean they originated from each other. Some would call them natural truths or aspects of human nature. Freemasonry is not a religion and it isn't confined to one type of person (culture or ethnicity). Thus, a great variety of people from different backgrounds can join. It probably wouldn't be an international fraternity if it was so restricting.