That's the result of colonialism, which usually promotes forced assimilation into the colonizers culture. If you ask most natives in North America whey certain

That's the result of colonialism, which usually promotes forced assimilation into the colonizers culture. If you ask most natives in North America whey certain areas/things/animals are sacred, you might also get a 'vague,' answer because we have only recently stopped trying to systematically eliminate the native's culture and religion. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...