Black drink
RITUAL BEVERAGE USED IN PURIFICATION CEREMONIES BREWED BY NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Black Drink; Cherokee black drink; Yaupon tea
Black drink is a name for several kinds of ritual beverages brewed by Native Americans in the Southeastern United States. Traditional ceremonial people of the Yuchi, Caddo, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee and some other Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands use the black drink in purification ceremonies.