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Uncleannesses etc. With regard to female uncleannesses the views & customs of the Cherokee and Creeks can scarcely be expressed more accurately than by referring to a strict obedience of the directions given in the 12th & 15th Chapters of Leviticus: only as these Indians have not the JewishTabernacle or Temple worship in all its forms except the common uncleanness of seven days both words underscored, or after childbirth, is observed. During the time of their uncleanness they must touch no person, but stay by themselves (among the Creeks, as anciently among the Cherokees also ) and must touch nothing but their own food, their own bed, & wearing apparel. And at the end of seven days, they are by working and other means purified, & permitted to return to the family circle. Unless the cause of uncleanness in some instances may be prolonged in which case the uncleanness continues also. The same uncleanness was communicated by the touch of a bone or a grave as of a dead body & the same rules with regard to purifying. Warriors observed the same kind or more rigid method of purification. For a man to sleep with a woman during the time of her uncleanness, was considered among the most filthy issues?. He was obliged to take an emetic formed of a root, called u ya sti (bearing a high stalk & end blossom)