But here's what we do know.

The Cherokee and Haida, like the Polynesians, Walabunnba, and pre-Zoroastrian Iranians, recognised two alternating seasons. Unlike the Polynesians, they did have a concept of years, and would express their ages by saying how many winters they had lived through.

The Haida definitely measured time by the phases of the moon before colonisation. If the Cherokee did as well, that knowledge has been lost.

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