Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Some traditions are still culturally important to Cherokee communities, but are limited by laws of the settler state; for example, in many U.S. states it is not legal for spiritual advisors to remain with the body from death until burial. [2] A large percentage of Cherokee individuals today are Christians and engage in Christian funeral practices.
The rites and prayers in the Blessing Way are concerned with healing, creation, harmony and peace. The song cycles recount the elaborate Navajo creation story (Diné Bahaneʼ). One of the most important Blessing Way rites is the Kinaaldá ceremony, in which a young girl makes the transition to womanhood upon her menarche. [1]
English: The Death Song of the Cherokee Indians: An original air brought from America. By a gentleman long conversant with the Indian tribes, Anne Hunter (composer). [London] : G. Walker 106 Great Portland Street, 1810.
For example, when Albert Gallatin, a politician and trained linguist, saw a copy of Sequoyah's syllabary, he believed it was superior to the English alphabet in that literacy could be easily achieved for Cherokee at a time when only one-third of English-speaking people achieved the same goal. [6]
The Great Lakes Algonquian syllabary is a syllabic writing system based upon the French alphabet, with letters organized into syllables. It was used primarily by speakers of Fox , Potawatomi , and Winnebago , but there is indirect evidence of use by speakers of Southwestern Ojibwe ("Chippewa").
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
As with Native Americans generally, [17] religion is a fully integrated facet of life and culture within Ojibwe communities. [18] Many Ojibwe prefer to describe their traditional beliefs and practices as "our way" or "our way of life" rather than as a "religion."
For example, Chipewyan and Slavey use the final ᐟ in the latter position to indicate the initial consonant dl (/tɬ/). In Naskapi, a small raised letter based on sa is used for consonant clusters that begin with /s/: ᔌ spwa, ᔍ stwa, ᔎ skwa, and ᔏ scwa. The Cree languages the script was initially designed for had no such clusters.