The Constitution of the Five Nations, Volume 184; Volume 196; Volumes 207-208 |
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accept the message Adodarhoh appointed Archeology arrived arrows asked assembled belt Botanist Botany brother lords called canoe Cayuga Cayuga Nation ceremony chief matron colleagues condolence Confederacy Confederate Council Confederate Lords corn council fire cousin Lords dance daughter death decision deer deer's horns Dekanahwideh Dekanahwideh further Dekanawida deposed deputy chief warrior duty Economic Geology emblem Entomology federacy Fire Keepers Five Nations foreign nation four brothers grief Hahyonhwatha Handsome Lake heard Hiawatha Indians Iroquois journey lake live Long House Long Leaves looked Lord Hahyonhwatha Lordship title matter messengers mind mother mourning Ohdahtshedeh Oneida Onondaga Onondaga nation opposite side Osinoh Paleontology party Peace and Power pole quadrangle Royaneh Sachem Seneca settlement shell strings singing Six Nations Skanyadahriyoh smoke song sorrow speaker spoke Thadodahho Tidings of Peace told tree tribe wampum War Chief wigwam woman women York
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Page 30 - Roots have spread out from the Tree of the Great Peace, one to the north, one to the east, one to the south and one to the west. The name of these roots is The Great White Roots and their nature is Peace and Strength.
Page 10 - When peace shall have been established by the termination of the war . . . then the War Captain shall cause all weapons of war to be taken from the nation. Then shall the Great Peace be established and the nation shall observe all the rules of the Great Peace for all time to come.
Page 42 - The lineal descent of the people of the Five Nations shall run in the female line. Women shall be considered the progenitors of the Nation. They shall own the land and the soil.
Page 10 - When the proposition to establish the Great Peace is made to a foreign nation it shall be done in mutual council. The foreign nation is to be persuaded by reason and urged to come into the Great Peace. If the Five Nations fail to obtain the consent of the nation at the first council a second council shall be held and upon a second failure a third council shall be held and this third council shall end the peaceful methods of persuasion. At the third council the War Chief of the Five nations shall...
Page 37 - With endless patience you shall carry out your duty and your firmness shall be tempered with tenderness for your people. Neither anger nor fury shall find lodgement in your mind and all your words and actions shall be marked with calm deliberation.
Page 104 - These great, long, white roots shall shoot forth one to the north and one to the south and one to the east and one to the west, and we shall place on the top of it...
Page 9 - ... this Tree of the Great Peace we spread the soft white feathery down of the globe thistle as seats for you, Adodarhoh, and your cousin Lords.
Page 54 - If refusal steadfastly follows the war captain shall let a bunch of white lake shells fall from his outstretched hand and shall bound quickly forward and club the offending chief to death. War shall thereby be declared and the war captain shall have his men at his back to support him in any emergency. War shall...
Page 127 - Wednesday, the council commenced. The ceremonies with which it was opened and conducted were certainly unique, almost indescribable; and as its proceedings were in the Seneca tongue, they were in a great measure unintelligible, and in fact profoundly mysterious to the pale faces. One of the chief objects for which the council had been convoked...
Page 55 - The men of every clan of the Five Nations shall have a Council Fire ever burning in readiness for a council of the clan. When it seems necessary for a council to be held to discuss the welfare of the clans, then the men may gather about the fire. This council shall have the same rights as the council of the women.
