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standing before you, all of whom have approved of this message. The 
Lords and all the Chief Warriors and this woman, our mother, have all 
agreed to submit the good tidings of Peace and Power to you, and thus 
if you approve and confirm the message, you will have the power to be 
the Fire-Keeper of our Confederate Council, and the smoke from it will 
arise and pierce the sky, and all the Nations shall be subject to you. 
Then the twisting and contortionate movements of the fingers, and the 
snake-like movements of the hair of Tha-do-dah-ho ceased. Then he 
spoke and said, I will now answer the object of your mission. I now 
confirm and accept your message. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, We have now accomplished and 
completed everything that was required, with the exception of shaping 
and transforming him, (by rubbing him down and taking the snake- 
like hair off him and cireumeising him). The Lords therefore all took 
a hand in doing this and Oh-dah-tshe-deh was the first to rub down 
Tha-do-dah-ho and the others followed his example, so that the appear- 
ance of Tha-do-dah-ho might be like that of other men. When this 
had been done then De-ka-nah-wi-deh again said, You, the Chief 
Warrior, and you, our mother, you have the control of the Power, and 
we will now put upon him a sign, by placing upon his head the horns of 
a buck deer. The reason why we shall do this is because all people live 
upon the flesh of the deer, and the reason that we take the emblem of 
the deer’s horns is that this institution will be the means of protecting 
our children hereafter. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, We shall now adopt these signs (or 
emblems) deer’s horns by placing them upon the head of each other. 
It shall be thus then, that these horns shall be placed upon the head of 
every man who shall be called a “Lord” by his people and he shall 
have the power to rule his people. Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh further said, 
And now you, the Chief Warrior, and our mother, shall place these horns 
upon the head of him (Tha-do-dah-ho). 
Then they looked and saw the horns lying on the ground in the 
midst of them, and then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, Pick these horns up 
and put them on him. Then the woman went forward and picked them 
up. Then the Chief Warrior and the woman each took hold of the 
horns and placed them on his head. Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said to the 
man who was still sitting on the ground, You will now stand up. Then 
the man stood up. Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh said, You, the Nations who 
are assembled here, see now this man, who has stood up before us. 
We have now completed placing the sign of the deer’s horns upon his 
head, which signifies the emblem of authority. The people shall now 
therefore call him Lord Tha-do-dah-ho, in the land. 
