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===Sacred fire=== Fire is important in traditional Cherokee beliefs, as well as in other Indigenous cultures of the Southeastern United States.<ref name="Traditions">{{cite web |title=Cherokee Religious Traditions |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/cherokee-religious-traditions |website=encyclopedia.com |access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref> In his book ''Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places'', anthropologist Peter Nabokov writes:<ref name="Nabokov">{{cite book |last1=Nabokov |first1=Peter |title=Where the Lightning Strikes The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places |date=March 27, 2007 |publisher=Penguin Publishing Group |isbn=9781440628597}}</ref> <blockquote>"Fire was the medium of transformation, turning offerings into gifts for spiritual intercessors for the four quarters of the earth."</blockquote> From The Cherokee People by T.Mails, the sacred fire was a special gift to the Cherokee people and in their dance around that blessed fire they would become united as one mind.
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