Tradition is the heartbeat of a sovereign nation. Long before modern marriage laws, the Cherokee people practiced...
Indigenous Ways
“The Stars hold TIME UNTIME within their grasp.” To the Chickamaugan Cherokee, the Zodiac is not a...
“Cherokee words are not like ‘Talking Leaves’ that wither and die; they are etched in the heart...
“Be careful where you look, or you may lose the very beauty you seek to show off.”...
“Behold me, for in a sacred manner I am walking.” Long before the reservation era, the White...
“The Sweat Lodge is the generative womb of Mother Earth—a place where the four elements of fire,...
“In the Sioux Inipi ceremony, water is the power ‘to make live.’ After four days on a...
When the night fire flickered in the teepee, a different kind of light came alive: the light...
Have you ever wondered why the Pelican has a pouch, or why the Coyote is so thin?...
Before the arrival of “Christian Civilization” and its complex cathedrals, the American Indian practiced a religion of...
