A NOTE about The Day of INFAMY-- April 9:
We Commemorate April 9 each year with MOURNING and FASTING and will do so until the RED CLAY RESOLUTION is repealed AND until the day we are recognized as TRUE Cherokee people.
This is not a "holiday" -- it is a National Day of Prayer
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now, about our other holidays
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We have many days of celebrations.
Our celebrations are ALWAYS to be seen as religious observances.
The RITUAL (that can be made public) is posted under the RITUAL section of the HANDBOOK.
We historically followed the LUNAR calendar, but that is too difficult for folks who need to work.
So we have adopted a NATIONAL calendar that we can use so that working folks can plan ahead and participate.
That is not to say that families should not follow the lunar calendar if they wish and have that wisdom.
Also, remember, we cannot post everything here or in our HANDBOOK because much of our ritual is not to be publicized.
If you really want to learn how to celebrate, join a community chapter, or begin one- and learn there. Invite elders from other chapters to come and teach you.
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ADDITIONAL NOTES ABOUT CELEBRATIONS:
At no time shall any member, whether that person be a member by documentation or by blood or by DNA or any other method, at no time shall any member of the Constitutional Cherokee engage in, host, particpate in, or otherwise endorse or encourage pow wow and pow wow events within the historic homeland.
Members shall certainly be allowed and free to participate in pow wow that is held outside of the historic homeland of the southeast or outside of the western homeland of the former IT of the Cherokee as a way of joining with others for whom the pow wow is their tradition and ceremony but the pow wow is not the tradition of the southeast and is not to be commemorated within the southeast by any member of the Constitutional Cherokee.
This is not because we feel pow wow is wrong. It is only improper for the southeastern homeland because the southeastern tradition is stomp, and not pow wow and we honor our heritage by doing OUR dances and our songs, not the dances and songs of others.
We may travel outside of our historic homeland boundaries and participate in a pow wow with friendly nations as gesture of goodwill, but this should not be construed as to mean that we view pow wow as traditional for the Cherokee people.
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