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Dr. Gregory Shushan | Near Death Experience in Indigenous Religion, Afterlife Journeys, & Resurrection
Native American Resistance and Missionary Encounters in the Afterlife
Native American NDE accounts frequently featured encounters with Europeans in the afterlife, sometimes including warnings of future genocides carried out by missionaries. These experiences provided indigenous people with a rational basis to resist Christian conversion; they could argue against the existence of "hell" based on first-hand testimony from those who had died and returned. These spiritual reports often served as a tool for tribal survival and cultural preservation against colonizers.