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  2. Medicine wheel (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    A medicine wheel is part of this 3D Toronto sign.. While some Indigenous groups that now use a version of the modern Medicine Wheel as a symbol have syncretized it with traditional teachings from their specific Native American or First Nations culture, and these particular teachings may go back hundreds, if not thousands of years, critics assert that the pan-Indian context it is usually placed ...

  3. Medicine wheel - Wikipedia

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    This 75-foot-diameter (23 m) wheel has 28 spokes, and is part of a vast set of old Native American sites that document 7,000 years of their history in that area. [ 3 ] Medicine wheels are also found in Ojibwa territory, the common theory is that they were built by the prehistoric ancestors of the Assiniboine people .

  4. Triskelion - Wikipedia

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    Neolithic triple-spiral symbol Look up triskelion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A triskelion or triskeles is an ancient motif consisting either of a triple spiral exhibiting rotational symmetry or of other patterns in triplicate that emanate from a common center.

  5. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Native American remains were on display in museums up until the 1960s. [129] Though many did not yet view Native American art as a part of the mainstream as of the year 1992, there has since then been a great increase in volume and quality of both Native art and artists, as well as exhibitions and venues, and individual curators.

  6. Ojibwe writing systems - Wikipedia

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    The long vowels /iː, oː, aː/ are paired with the short vowels /i, o, a/, and are written with double symbols ii, oo, aa that correspond to the single symbols used for the short vowels i, o, a . The long vowel /eː/ does not have a corresponding short vowel, and is written with a single e . [19] The short vowels are: i, o, a . [20]

  7. Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    In North American mythologies, common themes include a close relation to nature and animals as well as belief in a Great Spirit that is conceived of in various ways. As anthropologists note, their great creation myths and sacred oral tradition in whole are comparable to the Christian Bible and scriptures of other major religions.

  8. These are the pedophile symbols you need to know to protect ...

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    A FBI document obtained by Wikileaks details the symbols and logos used by pedophiles to identify sexual preferences. According to the document members of pedophilic organizations use of ...

  9. Spiro Mounds - Wikipedia

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    While reaching firm conclusions about the meanings of works of art made centuries ago by people of an extinct culture is difficult, they have made some compelling interpretations by comparing Mississippian artistic imagery with the myths, religious rituals, art, and iconography of historic Native American groups.