Traditions of Color

Here is the article that i read from internet!

Color was important to add meaning to a design. Most Native Americans named four points of the earth, the four directions of the compass--north, south, east, and west--and assigned a color to each one. Among the Cherokee, north was blue, south was white, east was red, and west was black. Colors could also mean life or death, war or peace, female or male, night or day. For example, the Navaho thought black represented men and blue, women. The Hopi thought that the color blue was the most sacred and used it to honor their gods. Here are some of the other meanings attached to colors:

Color Symbolism
Blue: North, sky, water, female, clouds, lightning, moon, thunder, sadness
Black: West, night, underworld, male, cold, disease, death
White: South, winter, death, snow
Red: East, wounds, sunset, thunder, blood, earth, war, day
Green: plant life, earth, summer, rain
Yellow: sunshine, day, dawn