Editing Cardinal direction (section)

===North America===
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|<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pitawanakwat |first1=Lillian |title=Ojibwe/Potawatomi (Anishinabe) Teaching |url=https://fourdirectionsteachings.com/transcripts/ojibwe.html |website=Four Directions Teachings |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref>
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|<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Language: The Meaning of Our Apache Name "Lipan" |url=https://www.lipanapache.org/LAT/e-name.html |website=Official Website of the Lipan Apache Tribe |publisher=Lipan Apache Tribe |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{cite web |title=What was the symbolism of the four directions? |url=https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-us/what-was-the-symbolism-of-the-four-directions |website=Mexilore |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{cite web |title=Colors and Directions |url=https://ioway.nativeweb.org/culture/colors_and_directions.htm |publisher=Ioway Cultural Institute |department=Baxoje, the Ioway Nation |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{cite web |title=Sacred Colors |url=https://www.northerncherokeenation.com/sacred-colors.html |website=Northern Cherokee Nation |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hodge |editor1-first=Frederick W. |title=The North American Indian: Volume 19 |page=20 |url=http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/viewpdf/default.aspx?article-title=The%20Southern%20Cheyenne.pdf |access-date=21 October 2024 |chapter=The Southern Cheyenne}}</ref>
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| [[Lakota people|Lakota]]
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| <ref>{{cite web |title=Native American Four Directions |url=https://aktalakota.stjo.org/lakota-culture/native-american-four-directions/ |website=Aktá Lakota |publisher=Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{cite web |last1=Hopkins |first1=Nicholas A. |last2=Josserand |first2=J. Kathryn |title=Directions and Partitions in Maya World View |url=http://www.famsi.org/research/hopkins/DirectionalPartitions.pdf |publisher=Florida State University |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{cite web |last1=Carey Jr |first1=Harold |title=The Navajo Four Sacred Colors |url=https://navajopeople.org/blog/the-navajo-four-sacred-colors/ |website=Navajo People |access-date=21 October 2024}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{cite book |last1=Roediger |first1=Virginia More |title=Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians: Their Evolution, Fabrication, and Significance in the Prayer Drama |date=1991 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley, CA, USA |page=93 |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8870087s&chunk.id=d0e1699&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e1688&brand=ucpress#:~:text=Colors%20were%20related%20to%20the,and%20black%20to%20the%20nadir. |chapter=Color}}</ref>
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In [[Mesoamerica]] and [[North America]], a number of traditional [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous]] cosmologies include four cardinal directions and a center. Some may also include "above" and "below" as directions, and therefore focus on a cosmology of seven directions. For example, among the [[Hopi]] of the [[Southwestern United States]], the four named cardinal directions are not North, South, East and West but are the four directions associated with the places of sunrise and sunset at the winter and summer solstices.<ref name = "Hopi_Dictionary">{{citation |author=Hopi Dictionary Project (University of Arizona Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology)|year=1998|title=Hopi dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi-English dictionary of the Third Mesa dialect with an English-Hopi finder list and a sketch of Hopi grammar|location=Tucson, Arizona|publisher=[[University of Arizona Press]] | page = 890 | isbn=978-0-8165-1789-3 | quote = '''The cardinal directions''' … are "solstitial" in that places on the horizon of sunrise and sunset on the solstices correlate with these directions: On the summer solstice the sun rises in the northeast, ''hoop'', and sets in the northwest, ''kwiningya''; on the winter solstice the sun rises in the southeast, ''tatkya'', and sets in the southwest, ''taavang''. | url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/hopidictionaryho0000unse}}</ref><ref name = "Hopi_Raum"/><ref>{{Citation | last = Curtis | first = Edward S. | author-link = Edward S. Curtis | editor-last = Hodge | editor-first = Frederick Webb | editor-link = Frederick Webb Hodge | year = 1922 | title = The Hopi | series = The North American Indian | volume = 12 | publisher = The Plimpton Press | publication-place = Norwood, Mass. | page = 246 | url = http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/viewPage.cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.12.book.00000333&volume=12#nav | access-date = 23 August 2014 | quote = Hopi orientation corresponds only approximately with ours, their cardinal points being marked by the solstitial rising and setting points of the sun.... Their cardinal points therefore are not mutually equidistant on the horizon and agree roughly with our semi-cardinal points. | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151222155759/http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/viewPage.cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.12.book.00000333&volume=12#nav | archive-date = 22 December 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{ Citation | last = Fewkes | first = Jesse Walter | author-link = Jesse Walter Fewkes | date = 1897 | title = The Group of Tusayan Ceremonials Called Katcinas | periodical = Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology | volume = 15 | publisher = Government Printing Office | place = Washington, DC | page = 258 | url = https://archive.org/details/tusayankatcinas00fewk/page/258/mode/1up?q=cardinal | accessdate = 22 August 2022 | quote = The names of the four horizon cardinal points are, kwiniwi, northwest; tevyü'ña, southwest; tatyúka, southeast, and hopokyüka (syncopated hópoko), northeast. }}</ref> Each direction may be associated with a color, which can vary widely between nations, but which is usually one of the basic colors found in nature and natural pigments, such as black, red, white, and yellow, with occasional appearances of blue, green, or other hues.<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Anderson | first1 = Kasper Wrem | last2 = Helmke | first2 = Christophe | year = 2013 | title = The Personifications of Celestial Water: The Many Guises of the Storm God in the Pantheon and Cosmology of Teotihuacan | journal = Contributions in New World Archaeology | volume = 5 | pages = 177–179}}</ref> There can be great variety in color symbolism, even among cultures that are close neighbors geographically.