Cry Ceremony: The Woodland Native Americans

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The Woodland Native Americans have many daily practices.If a woodland tribe member died they would hold a cry ceremony.In a cry ceremony the chief would sing and dance around a fire.This ceremony would last for five days,The day before it started, five knots were tied in a piece of milkweed. Every day of the ceremony they untied a knot.There belief was animis,it was the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects.The belief that everything has a soul or spirit-pervades many aspects of life for the northeast tribes.They believe in the afterlife.these are all part of religious beliefs.The woodland tribes have a special religious belief system,in which the woodland tribes have a cry

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