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Date Posted: Fri, 01/24/03 9:37pm
Author: earthw7
Subject: Re: Marriage and divorce
In reply to: bow 's message, "Re: Marriage and divorce" on Fri, 01/24/03 8:08pm

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>
>ew7, thats the way it was in dinehtah also. a silver
>concho belt, blankets, horses or cattle to purchase a
>wife. :) ... also there was a wedding ceremony with
>medicine man, family present and the whole nine yards
>if people wanted to go that route.
>
>in the ceremony, they use a basket. in dineh, the
>design on the basket always has an opening which
>signify's that at anytime, people can come or go if
>they want.
>
>the life of the people is within that basket as they
>say. so if a woman didn't want her man anymore, she
>could just leave his stuff outside by the door, and
>that was it, a divorce. :) some people still
>practice it. :) it works.

It still goes on here today too! You travel though the districts and see all these cloths laying in the yard you know someone is getting a divorce. Today they sometime burn all their cloth or as one woman did cut out all crotch area.

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