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he built a shelter. That night he heard a song and its words were 

 what he believed and had spoken many times to the Onondaga 

 chiefs and to the Mohawks. 



In the morning he ascended the mountain and there he found 

 five stalks of corn springing from four roots and there was only 

 one large stalk at the root from which the five stalks grew. On 

 each stalk were three large ears of ripe corn. Near the corn he 

 saw a large turtle with a red and yellow belly and it was the turtle 

 that danced. He danced the Ostowago'na, the great feather dance. 

 So then Hayentwatha said " Did you sing last night ? I heard 

 singing." Then the turtle replied, " I sang. Now this is the great 

 corn and you will make the nations like it. Three ears represent 

 the three nations 1 and the five stalks from a single stalk represent 

 the five nations and the four roots go to the north and west the 

 south and the east." 



Hayentwatha proceeded on his journey and after a time he came 

 to a group of lakes. He called it Tga-ni-ya-da-ha-niofi (the lake 

 group on hill) (the present Tully group of lakes). On one of 

 these lakes were many ducks swimming very closely together. The 

 ducks covered the lake. So Hayentwatha stopped to look at so 

 strange a sight. " What are you doing there, so many of you ?" 

 he said all to himself. The ducks heard him and at the same 

 moment, whoo ! every one of them flew into the air and lifted up 

 the water, so quickly did they fly up. The bottom of the lake was 

 left dry and Hayentwatha walked across it. As he walked he saw 

 many small shells and he gathered a deer skin full of shells so 

 many were there. When he reached the opposite shore he saw a 

 man limping toward him. He was dragging a large snapping 

 turtle. "What troubles your walk?" asked Hayentwatha. "I 

 have a blister on my crotch " answered the man. 



Then said Hayentwatha to himself, "In the future this man and 

 his brothers with all his female relations shall be known as Hodl- 

 ho'o'en'h. They have blisters on their crotches and they shall be of 

 the Small Turtle Clan." 



Then again he proceeded on his journey and after a time he 

 saw an old corn field and a field shelter house with a roof of 

 stalks. So he went there for a camp. 



The great sorrow had not left him so he sat by his campfire and 

 talked to himself. Then he strung up the shells and placed three 

 strings on a pole laid across two upright poles. He continued to 

 talk. 



1 The original confederates were the Mohawk, Oneida and Onondaga. 



