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Great Green Corn Dance.

Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: &c.-- "and the feast of harvest, the finest fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field." Exodus chap: XXIII verses 15 & 16. Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days. on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath." "And ye shall take on the first day, the boughs of goodly trees," &c. &c. Leviticus, chapter XXIII. Verses 39 to 43 inclusive.

Green Corn Dances, or, the greatest Cherokee festivals, take place annually,-- commencing after the corn has ripened, and continuing, at different places, throughout the greater part of the autumnal months. Each place appointed for holding a first fruit dance, is attended by a large multitude of people.

There appears to be no standing rule in regard to the number of days to be devoted to the observance of this festival, throughout the nation, or at a single place. A green corn dance sometimes continues three days, and at other times from four to seven. The first day is generally spent in lounging about the town house and immediate vicinity;-- in conversation, and,