Indian Colors?

Im wanting to know..What are the colors for an Indian?? Im gonna make a ripple afgan blanket and wanna use the Indian colors for it.

Indian Colors?
I can tell you the four colors used in the Lakota tradition--I am sure they are used by other Indians, but I am not sure of the meanings of the colors for them.





Black-the color of the West, where Wakian (Thunder Beings) come from and bring the rain.





Red-the color of the North, where the Red Road began when the Buffalo Calf Maiden came to give the people the Ceremonies





Yellow-the color of the East, the land of dreams and the Elk people





White-the color of the South, the land to which all spirits go.





Note, please, that these colors also represent the skin colors of major groups of people.





Green-for Grandmother Earth





Blue-for The Great Mystery.





In ceremony, the Lakota take these colors of cloth, cut them into small squares, and then place a pinch of tobacco in the middle. As they do this, they pray. Then they tie the bundle with sinew (or artificial sinew, which is easier to get). The tobacco ties are tied together on the sinew, in the order of colors given above. The spiritual leader may tell everyone to make a certain number of ties, but usually people make seven of each color. The ties are placed on the mound outside the sweatlodge or taken into the lodge and hung on the lodge poles during the sweatlodge ceremony.





For Vision Quest, hundreds of these ties are made, and are tied around the perimeter of the site where the questing person is going to stay to await a vision. They offer protection for the questor, and cannot be broken, but rather taken down in a certain manner when the vision quest is done.





I have done innumerable sweatlodge ceremonies and have been a supporter for those on Vision Quest, which is how I came to get this information.
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