Midwinter Ceremony
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Social Science
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Ceremonies, Rites, Rituals
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: United States
Article abstract: The Midwinter Ceremony was, and is, the pivotal event of the annual Iroquois ceremonial cycle; eight days of thanksgiving, propitiatory, and curing ceremonies traditionally began five days after the first new moon after the Pleiades were directly overhead at sunset
The Midwinter Ceremony, sometimes called the New Year Ceremony, is the biggest annual ceremony in Iroquois culture. Although the ceremony is still important today, this article will discuss it in the past tense to emphasize that the discussion concerns the ceremony as it existed...
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