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question about colors
Hello everyone,
I'm new here and considoring becoming more active in the culture. I am Muscogee Creek (card carrying) & Cherokee (non-card carrying)... I really don't even know how to get started honestly. I've been doing beading for over a year now my Mother-in-law taught me and I'm getting fairly good at it. My Mom's fiance is a fancy dancer and my Mom is making him all new Regalia and asked me to bead some new pieces for him so I am making him a large (5 inch) rosette that will go in the center of his bustle. Well anyways...thats another matter.
He is of a different tribal background than myself and he uses his own tribal colors. I was wondering if I wanted to get started and make my own regalia and start dancing myself what colors should I use? What is appropriate? I love the fancy shawl dancing but I'm not in a good enough physical shape being overweight and I think I'm just too old (27)... so I'm thinking about doing southern cloth... I would love to do buckskin but HOLY COW is that expensive! So anyways... should I go with traditional tribal colors for creek or cherokee but I dont even know what the traditional colors for those tribes are.... or should I just go with what I like? My Mom-in-law (who's a white woman) and I have been having a disagreement about this because she thinks its not "allowed" to use whatever colors you want and that I have to go with tribal or traditional colors... what do you all think?
Thanks so much!
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