"Several Indian nations, such as the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas, worshipped black gods along with their other deities, and the Mayan religion particularly exemplifies the high esteem in which the negroes were held." --Harold G. Lawrence, The crisis, 1962 Why were all indigenous religions and spiritual systems deemed as "pagan" or "evil"and were replaced during colonization? It would be hard to subjugate a people who were previously worshipped without replacing old traditions

According to their own cosmology they were! Among the indigenous tribes of the southeastern United States, living within a territory roughly defined by the borders of Georgia and South Carolina, was one, exhibiting a type of culture common to the inhabitants of the country bordering on the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi river, whose members called themselves Tsoyahd, "Offspring of the Sun," otherwise known as the Yuchi. The Yuchi, in accordance with their belief tha