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  2. Cherokee calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Cherokee, like many other Native tribes, used the number of scutes on the backs of certain species of turtles to determine their calendar cycle. The scutes around the edge added up to 28, the same number of days as in a lunar cycle, while the center contained 13 larger scutes, representing the 13 moon cycles of a year. [1] [2] Turtle shell ...

  3. Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Ho-Chunk mythology - A North American tribe located in now eastern Wisconsin. Iroquois mythology - A confederacy of tribes located in the New York state area. Lenape mythology; Seneca mythology - A North American tribe located south of Lake Ontario. Wyandot religion - A North American tribe located around the northern shore of Lake Ontario.

  4. Winter count - Wikipedia

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    Winter counts (Lakota: waníyetu wówapi or waníyetu iyáwapi) are pictorial calendars or histories in which tribal records and events were recorded by Native Americans in North America. The Blackfeet, Mandan, Kiowa, Lakota, and other Plains tribes used winter counts extensively. There are approximately one hundred winter counts in existence ...

  5. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Native American remains were on display in museums up until the 1960s. [129] Though many did not yet view Native American art as a part of the mainstream as of the year 1992, there has since then been a great increase in volume and quality of both Native art and artists, as well as exhibitions and venues, and individual curators.

  6. Cherokee spiritual beliefs - Wikipedia

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    ᏗᎵᏍᏙᏗ "dilsdohdi" [1] the "water spider" is said to have first brought fire to the inhabitants of the earth in the basket on her back. [2]Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people – Native American peoples who are Indigenous to the Southeastern Woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians ...

  7. Cherokee - Wikipedia

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    Unlike most other Native American tribes in the American Southeast at the start of the historic era, the Cherokee and Tuscarora people spoke Iroquoian languages. Since the Great Lakes region was the territory of most Iroquoian-language speakers, scholars have theorized that both the Cherokee and Tuscarora migrated south from that region.

  8. Kachina - Wikipedia

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    A kachina (/ k ə ˈ tʃ iː n ə /; also katchina, katcina, or katsina; Hopi: katsina [kaˈtsʲina], plural katsinim [kaˈtsʲinim]) is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo people, Native American cultures located in the south-western part of the United States.

  9. Sequoyah - Wikipedia

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    Sequoyah (/ s ə ˈ k w ɔɪ ə / sə-QUOY-yə; Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, [a] or ᏎᏉᏯ, Sequoya, [b] pronounced; c. 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation.

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