Did/Do the Cherokee go on vision quests? What about Spirit Guides? Did they have them?

Question

Someone was trying to tell me today that all this was true, and I wasn't sure...?

Answer 1

Why does everyone try to equate the Cherokee with the "tribes" of the plains???

Vision quests - No
Spirit Guides - You bet...

Many people today think that the Sioux or Comanche culture is the culture of all Native Americans. This is just not true. So many times I hear someone from the Southeast saying "That's the traditional way to do such and such." (most commonly with the pipe and sweat lodges, colors and directions, and hairstyles and clothing.) Generally, they are telling someone the Sioux way, or the Comanche way, mostly Sioux. I am not knocking the Sioux or Comanche. But for a Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, Natchez, Catawba, Lumbee, Delaware, Shawnee, etc. to say that the Sioux way is their traditional way is just as incorrect as saying the Irish way is their traditional way. (If the person is part Irish, it becomes more incorrect.) We do not say that the ways of the Spanish are the ways of the Irish, nor the ways of the Greek the ways of the Dutch. So why should we say the ways of the Sioux are the ways of the Creek, or the ways of the Comanche the ways of the Choctaw?

Answer 2

Most Native American tribes have some form of this, but I'm not sure about the Cherokee tribes specifically.

Answer 3

It is. Google Native American Spirituality or Cherokee religion.

Answer 4

I go to the chuch building with an Indian.
He told me some things about Sweat Lodges.

Pretty Intense.

Answer 5

they would call them totem animals I believe
where an animal would come to them in a vision or dream
and the animal would represents characteristics for them