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RE: Colouring Accomplished #20: Beautiful Headdress of Cherokee
The colours are nice.
The Cherokee never wore head dresses like that though, the headless and war bonnet was further north and a plains Indian outfit. Lakota, Cree area.
And women never wore them. It was usually reserved for the leader, or spiritual leaders.
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Thank you. I see now... Supposedly for Leaders (traditionally). But nowadays, anyone just wear it as a costume...?
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It’s really frowned upon by First Nations when people wear it as a costume.
In a headdress, each feather is earned through doing some amazing for the tribe. Sort of like medals on a soldier. We get kind of angry when people just go around wearing them.
Traditionally it’s presented to a person by the elders.
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I see. That's really good to know. I do agree, it's not something to be taken lightly. Thank you so much for the information.
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