Four Days, Nights: A Girls' Coming-Of-Age Ceremony : NPR

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Four Days, Nights: A Girls' Coming-Of-Age Ceremony : NPR

More than 90 girls have taken part in the Isnati coming-of-age ceremony on a reservation in South Dakota in the past 13 years. During the four-day ritual, the girls can't touch food or drink -- they are fed by the women in the camp. They also talk with their elders about modesty, courtship, pregnancy and suicide before graduating to womanhood.

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Tags: Suicide, Women's Health, Senior Health, Pregnancy