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therefore we shall now add to the number of the Lords of the Con- 
federacy (Eh-ji-twa-nah-stah-soh-de-renh, we shall call it Ka-na-stah- 
ge-ko-wah) and these two Chief Warriors shall represent the door of the 
Confederacy, (Ka-noh-hah-ge-ko-wah) meaning the great black door, 
through which all good and evil messages must come to reach the Con- 
federate House of Lords or Council, and if any person or Nation has any 
news, message or business matter to lay before the Confederate Council 
he or they must come through this door. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh again further said, We shall now crown 
these two Chief Warriors with deer’s horns and make them Lords also. 
We shall now first crown with deer’s horn De-yoh-ne-oh-ka-weh of the 
Wolf Clan and then we shall also crown Ka-non-ke-dah-we of 
the Snipe Clan and these two shall be cousins and they shall guard the 
door of the Confederacy. And we shall now floor the doorway with 
slippery elm bark, and it shall be that whenever we have visitors from 
other nations who will have any message or any business to lay before 
the Confederate Council, these two door keepers shall escort and convey 
them before the Council, but whenever the visitor or visitors have come 
for evil purposes then Ka-non-ke-dah-we shall take them by the 
hand and lead them in and they shall slip on the slippery elm bark and 
fall down and they shall be reduced to a skeleton or heap of bones 
(Eh-yoh-so-jo-de-hah, in Onondaga language, Eh-yoh-doh-yoh-da-neh 
in Mohawk) that the bones of the enemy will fall into a heap 
before the Lords of the Confederacy. (A heap of bones here signifies 
a conquered Nation to be dealt with by the Lords of the Confederacy 
who shall decide as to what manner they will be allowed to exist in the 
future.) 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh again said, We have completed the Con- 
federation of the Five Nations. Now therefore it shall be that here- 
after the Lords who shall be appointed in the future to fill vacancies 
caused by death or removals shall be appointed from the same families 
and Clans from which the first Lords were created, and from which 
families the hereditary title of Lordships shall descend. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh further said, I now transfer and set over 
to the women the Lordship titles vested in them, and they shall 
in the future have the power to appoint the successors from time to 
time to fill vacancies caused by death or removals from whatever cause. 
Then De-ka-nah-wi-deh continued and said, We shall now build 
a Confederate Council fire from which the smoke shall arise and pierce 
the skies and all nations and peoples shall see this smoke. And now 
to you Tha-do-dah-ho your brother and cousin Colleagues shall be left 
the care and protection of the Confederate Council fire, by the Con- 
federate Nations. 
