Articles for tag: BearSymbolism, BearTotem, Spirituality, TotemAnimals

brown bear walking near trees

Why Native Americans Revere the Bear as a Totem Animal

Suhail Ahmed

  The bear moves through North American forests like a living paradox: a powerful predator that also spends months in near-death stillness, a feared presence that many Indigenous peoples have treated as a wise teacher and relative. For generations, Native American nations have woven stories, ceremonies, and taboos around this animal, long before modern biologists ...