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		<title>The Old Cherokee Wedding Ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tradition is the heartbeat of a sovereign nation. Long before modern marriage laws, the Cherokee people practiced a]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cherokee Prophecies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Stars hold TIME UNTIME within their grasp.&#8221; To the Chickamaugan Cherokee, the Zodiac is not a fixed]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Cherokee words are not like &#8216;Talking Leaves&#8217; that wither and die; they are etched in the heart of]]></description>
		
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		<title>BlueBird</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Be careful where you look, or you may lose the very beauty you seek to show off.&#8221; In]]></description>
		
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		<title>Buffalo Calf Woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Behold me, for in a sacred manner I am walking.&#8221; Long before the reservation era, the White Buffalo]]></description>
		
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		<title>Building a Sweat Lodge (Inipi)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Sweat Lodge is the generative womb of Mother Earth—a place where the four elements of fire, water,]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Inipi Ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the Sioux Inipi ceremony, water is the power &#8216;to make live.&#8217; After four days on a Vision]]></description>
		
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		<title>Old Indian Legends</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the night fire flickered in the teepee, a different kind of light came alive: the light of]]></description>
		
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		<title>Indian Why Stories: SPARKS FROM WAR EAGLE&#8217;S LODGE-FIRE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why the Pelican has a pouch, or why the Coyote is so thin? Sitting]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Soul of the Indian</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before the arrival of &#8220;Christian Civilization&#8221; and its complex cathedrals, the American Indian practiced a religion of pure,]]></description>
		
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