Then the speaker shall announce the child's name twice.

Five Nations Confederate Lords have equally contributed, shall symbolize the completeness of the union and certify the pledge of the nations represented by the Confederate Lords of the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga and the Senecca, that all are united and formed into one body or union called the Union of the Great Law, which they have established. Five arrows shall be bound together very strong and each arrow shall represent one nation. Then shall the War Chief address himself to the Lords of the Nation to which the deposed Lord belongs and say: "Know you, my Lords, that I have taken the deer's antlers from the brow of ___________, the emblem of his position and token of his greatness.".

One year is the time that you must abstain from unseemly levity but if you can not do this for ceremony, ten days is the time to regard these things for respect.". When they reach the sorrowing Lords they shall hail the candidate Lord and perform the rite of Conferring the Lordship Title. He has now become a Confederate Lord. 117. (etc.)" You were one of the many joint heirs of the Lordship titles. The foreign nation is to be persuaded by reason and urged to come into the Great Peace. Now we release you for it is true that it is no longer possible for us to walk about together on the earth. Therefore shall they be in peace in the sunshine again. 46. Each string shall represent one territory and the whole a completely united territory known as the Five Nations Confederate territory.

You were a tender bud and gladdened our hearts for only a few days. You shall now go your way alone, the rest of the people of the Confederacy will not go with you, for we know not the kind of mind that possesses you. It shall ever be his duty to lay the cases, questions and propositions of the people before the Confederate Council.

I am Dekanawidah and with the Five Nation's Confederate Lords I plant the Tree of Great Peace. They shall be warned once and if a second warning is necessary they shall be driven from the territory of the Confederacy by the War Chiefs and his men. By the evil deed that you have done they have forfeited it forever.". Then shall the children be again in sunshine.

This decision shall be a confirmation of the voice of the people. As the five arrows are strongly bound this shall symbolize the complete union of the nations.

Runners shall travel day and night. Every person not entitled to enter the house by right of living within it upon seeing such a sign shall not approach the house either by day or by night but shall keep as far away as his business will permit. When the Council of the Five Nation Lords shall convene they shall appoint a speaker for the day.

The Lords of the Confederacy shall elect the family or clan which shall in future hold the title. If the men and the women agree to a candidate his name shall be referred to the sister clans for confirmation. Your heart shall be filled with peace and good will and your mind filled with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the Confederacy. You once held a sacred position as a mother of the nation. Then shall the Five Nations seek to establish the Great Peace by a conquest of the rebellious nation. When the Lords are assembled the Council Fire shall be kindled, but not with chestnut wood, and Adodarhoh shall formally open the Council. The War Chief shall then hand the title to a sister family and he shall address it and say: "Our mothers, ____________, listen attentively while I address you on a solemn and important subject. It shall be the duty of the Lords of each brotherhood to confer at the approach of the time of the Midwinter Thanksgiving and to notify their people of the approaching festival. He shall say that the black clouds shall roll away and that the bright blue sky is visible once more. 98. ]. 2. When the Five Nations' Council declares war any Lord of the Confederacy may enlist with the warriors by temporarily renouncing his sacred Lordship title which he holds through the election of his women relatives. When an infant of the Five Nations is given an Authorized Name at the Midwinter Festival or at the Ripe Corn Festival, one in the cousinhood of which the infant is a member shall be appointed a speaker.
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Now, therefore, we lay it (the body) here. 34. With endless patience they shall carry out their duty and their firmness shall be tempered with a tenderness for their people. 71. 45. Thus shall the Great Peace be established and hostilities shall no longer be known between the Five Nations but peace to the United People. WAMPUM #7 THE GREAT LAW OF PEACE ONONDAGA CHIEFS OPEN THE COUNCIL FIRE OF THE IROQUOIS 102. 15. Always listen to the words of the Great Creator, for he, has spoken. When the Confederate Council of the Five Nations declares for a reading of the belts of shell calling to mind these laws, they shall provide for the reader a specially made mat woven of the fibers of wild hemp. Also, environments and situations change over time, so the laws can be A bunch of a certain number of shell (wampum) strings each two spans in length shall be given to each of the female families in which the Lordship titles are vested. No council of the Confederate Lords shall be legal unless all the Mohawk Lords are present. It shall be the duty of the War Chief so chosen to come before his warriors and address them. You were once a woman in the flower of life and the bloom is now withered away. They shall also say to the nation that it must never try to control, to interfere with or to injure the Five Nations nor disregard the Great Peace or any of its rules or customs. If the female heirs of a Confederate Lord's title become extinct, the title right shall be given by the Lords of the Confederacy to the sister family whom they shall elect and that family shall hold the name and transmit it to their (female) heirs, but they shall not appoint any of their sons as a candidate for a title until all the eligible men of the former family shall have died or otherwise have become ineligible. If all the heirs of a Lordship title become extinct, and all the families in the clan, then the title shall be given by the Lords of the Confederacy to the family in a sister clan whom they shall elect. Three strings of shell one span in length shall be employed in addressing the assemblage at the burial of the dead. Five Nations which shall denote that the owner or occupant of a house is absent.

If either a nephew or a niece see an irregularity in the performance of the functions of the Great Peace and its laws, in the Confederate Council or in the conferring of Lordship titles in an improper way, through their War Chief they may demand that such actions become subject to correction and that the matter conform to the ways prescribed by the laws of the Great Peace. The Mohawk Lords are the foundation of the Great Peace and it shall, therefore, be against the Great Binding Law to pass measures in the Confederate Council after the Mohawk Lords have protested against them.

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