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PACIFICATION OF THE SENECA CHIEFS 



Then Dekanahwideh spoke again and said : " I will now lay 

 before your confederate council for your consideration one matter, 

 and that is with reference to the conduct of the chief warriors of 

 O-non-do-wa-ka (Senecas) who have refused to act in conjunction 

 (or accord) with the lords in accepting the message of Good Tid- 

 ings of Peace and Power." 



Then the lords sent messengers for these two chief warriors of 

 the Onondowaka (Senecas) to appear. And when they had come 

 to the council, Lord Hahyonhwatha addressed these two chief 

 warriors and said : " This Confederate Council now in session, to- 

 gether with their warriors, have unanimously accepted the message 

 of Peace and Power and only you two chief warriors have not yet 

 accepted and neither have expressed yourselves on this matter." 

 Then Hayonhwatha further said : " This Confederate Council and 

 their chief warriors have unanimously decided to leave all the war 

 power and military control of the people in your hands providing 

 you accept the message so that in case of war with other nations 

 you shall be the leaders of the people of the Confederate Nations 

 in defense of their confederacy." Then one of these two warriors 

 spoke and said : " We are agreed to accept the message." 



Then Dekanahwideh continued his address and said : " Now our 

 power is full and' complete and the two chief warriors of the 

 Onondowaka (Senecas) have agreed to accept the message of Good 

 Tidings ; therefore we shall now add to the number of the lords of 

 the confederacy (Eh-ji-twa-nah-stah-soh-de-renh), 1 we shall call it 

 Ka-na-stah-ge-ko-wah 2 and these two chief warriors shall repre- 

 sent the door of the long house. Ka-noh-hah-ge-ko-wah, 3 meaning 

 the great black door through which all good and evil messages must 

 come to reach the confederate house of lords or council, shall be 

 the name of the door, 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 Dekanahwideh again further said, " We shall now crown 

 these two chief warriors with deer's horns 4 and make them lords 

 also. We shall now first crown with deer's horns Deyohneohkaweh 5 

 of the Wolf Clan and then we shall also crown Kanonkedahwe 6 



1 Nedjitwanastashonda'. 



2 Kana'stadjigo'wa, Black timbers. 



3 Kanohwa'gego'na. 



4 Skano n do n ona"ga, Deer horns. 



5 Deyorierihoga"we\ Open door. 



Kano n 'gida'hwT', Hair burned off. 



