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Cherokee Dancing Remembered: Why the Eastern Band Abjured the Old Eagle Dance

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16365
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Oral history as related by Lawrence Calhoun of the Big Cove section of Cherokee, North Carolina, offers an interesting bit of tribal history along with partial instructions for a night-long series of dances in the order prescribed for the Cherokees in the North Carolina mountains by an almost obliterated tradition.
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