Apache Wedding prayer -- is it legit?

Factual Questions
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Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness,
For each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two bodies,
But there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into the days of your togetherness
And may your days be good and long upon the earth.
dingdingdingdingdingdingding

Err, sorry, lemme turn my bullshit detector off.

There we go.

My fiancee and I are looking at various wedding ceremonies. And damn near every wedding site or book we look at that contains nontraditional ceremonies also contains this Apache Wedding Prayer. But I can’t find any information about where it comes from specifically. And I have a hunch that it’s from Norma Feidelburg’s Way of the Mystic Crystal Shaman Warrior, copyright 1973, or something like that.

Does anyone know the source for this bit of poetry? I fit’s actually a gen-you-wine Apache ceremony, we still won’t use it – there’s all those issues about cultural appropriation that make me skeevy. But at least I won’t be such a damn skeptic about it.

Thanks!
Daniel

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After some googling, I found any sites that gave an attribution called it, “Wedding Braids” by Stan Davis. Unfortunately, I can’t trace it back any further than that, to a book or a year.

Hal

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Thanks, winsling! I’ll keep looking to see if I can find out any information about this Stan Davis fellow; has anyone here ever heard of him?

Daniel

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you may also want to try googling “a cherokee wedding” since it seems to lurk under that name occasionally too.