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Gainesville woman describes Native American ceremonies to congregation
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Drumbeats filled the Georgia Mountain Unitarian Universalist Church in Dahlonega as Lojuana Howard spoke to the congregation Sunday about how beats during a drumming cleanse the body. - photo by Photos by CHARLIE WILLIAMS
Lojuana Howard grabbed the edge of the podium and slipped her shoes from her feet. "I never do Native American work with my shoes on," she said to the Sunday morning congregation of the Georgia Mountains Unitarian Universalist Church in Dahlonega. Howard, of Gainesville, briefly described several Native American ceremonies she has learned from various teachers during the past few decades.
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