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The paper analyses the symbolism of numbers of North American Indians, the meanings attributed to certain numbers, their role in the daily and ceremonial life of different tribes, as well as their mythological functions. Although American Indian numerical symbolism has much in common with that of other traditional societies, in some aspects it is unique. It is widely represented in their mythology, where numbers not only reveal the system of world order, spatial and temporal relations and understanding of the world which had been developed in the minds of the ancestors of modern American Indians, but to this day remain important symbols and life reference points for them.