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    Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and...
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    religion Nazca religion Taki Unquy Wari' beliefs Illinois religion Innu beliefs Iroquois beliefs Cherokee beliefs Four Mothers Society Keetoowah Society...
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    Keetoowah Nighthawk Society (category 20th-century Cherokee history)
    was a Cherokee organisation formed in 1858 and re-established ca. 1900 that intended to preserve and practice traditional Cherokee spiritual beliefs and...
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  • Bunyan Si-Te-Cah - Northern Paiute people Skunk ape Tsul 'Kalu - Cherokee spiritual beliefs Wechuge - Athabaskan Wendigo Zipacna - Maya mythology Flaming...
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    contains Cherokee syllabic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Cherokee syllabics...
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    colonization of the Americas, the red wolf has featured prominently in Cherokee spiritual beliefs, where it is known as wa'ya (ᏩᏯ), and is said to be the companion...
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    The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Tsalagihi Ayeli or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ Tsalagiyehli) is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Cherokees in the...
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  • result of malign human or supernatural intervention. For example, Cherokee spiritual beliefs attribute disease to revenge imposed by animals for killing them...
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    religion Nazca religion Taki Unquy Wari' beliefs Illinois religion Innu religion Iroquois religion Cherokee beliefs Four Mothers Society Keetoowah Society...
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    Shamanism (category Spiritual practice)
    spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world for the purpose of healing, divination, or to aid human beings in some other way. Beliefs and practices...
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    Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, parts of Siberia, and Greenland...
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    traditional beliefs Papuan religion Dumo spirituality Fore traditional beliefs Kaluli religion Korowai religion Trobriand traditional beliefs Urapmin traditional...
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    feet high. The Cherokee traditionally observed a seven day period of mourning. Seven is a spiritually significant number to the Cherokee as it is believed...
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  • Harley Reagan (category New Age spiritual leaders)
    are drawn from spiritual practices of the Olmec, Mayan and Toltec cultures, and what he claimed are secret societies within the Cherokee Nation, have been...
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  • in America. The shared creed includes beliefs in inherent dignity, a common search for truth, respect for beliefs of others, compassion, and social action...
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  • Witchcraft in North America (category Articles containing Cherokee-language text)
    beliefs and interactions. These forces contribute to complex and evolving views of witchcraft. Today, North America hosts a diverse array of beliefs about...
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  • 1738–1739 North Carolina smallpox epidemic (category 18th-century Cherokee history)
    some of the Cherokee healers to abandon their spiritual beliefs in despair. As the Cherokee began to abandon traditional spiritual beliefs because of their...
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    traditions, characters and beliefs regarding places, peoples, and entities. Chaná mythology – the folk tales and beliefs of Chaná people about places...
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    The 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles (also known as the 1st Arkansas Cherokee Mounted Rifles and the "Cherokee Braves") was a cavalry formation of the Confederate...
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  • The Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama (CTNEAL), formerly the Cherokees of Jackson County, is a state-recognized tribe in Alabama. They have about 3,000...
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    The Museum of the Cherokee People (MTCP), formerly known as the Museum of the Cherokee Indian (MCI), is a 501(c)3 nonprofit cultural arts and history museum...
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    of California, Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ojibwe, Yuchi, and Cherokee. American anthropologist Gladys Reichard located the distribution of the...
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    healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas. Each culture has its own name in its language for spiritual healers...
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    Island consequently speaks to various spiritual and cultural beliefs. Teuton, Christopher B (August 2016). Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars'...
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    spirits. Menstruation was spiritually significant in some cultures. For example, some male hunters among the Shawnee, Creek, Cherokee, and Cree, would avoid...
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    Religion (section Beliefs)
    social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations...
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    Anukʋsha - Choctaw Pukwudgie - Wampanoag Yehasuri - Catawba Yunwi Tsunsdi - Cherokee The Native American little people have been said to reside in the Pryor...
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    1841. After the enactment of the Act, approximately 60,000 members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations (including...
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    Sequoyah v. Tennessee Valley Authority (category Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
    and spiritual power of the Cherokee will be destroyed [...] If this land is flooded and these sacred places are destroyed, the knowledge and beliefs of...
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    khandan, which is led by a spiritual leader called a say-yed, to whom each member must swear obedience. The say-yed is the spiritual leader of the community...
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