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Cherokee Council Fire

Our guide explained the seven shelters were for the seven Cherokee clans. They hold a council fire about once a month. It is a sacred time and no outsiders may observe.


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Blog: Chapter 19 Oklahoma and Homecoming
Date: July 15th 2010

July 7—After resting yesterday, I took off today to roam around some more. I drove to Tahlequah, which is the capitol of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Heritage Center is on the grounds of an old Cherokee school for girls. There is a great museum there, and a living Cherokee village representing the way they lived in the 1700s before they were forcibly removed from the East Coast to Oklaho ... read more


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