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Okay, I'm not Anishinabeg so I'll qualify my remarks right off the bat. I don't know the traditional story. But here's my two cents: Why would traditional Native people make a rule about their medicine dress that corresponds to the days of the white man's calendar?? What's the significance of 365 days to us?? Nothing really since, traditionally, we didn't use a calendar. We went by the seasons.
I don't know where the rule came from but it doesn't make sense to me. Some Anishinabeg that I've talked to have said the same thing but others go by this rule so I don't have a definitive answer either. I'm just wondering...
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