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SECTION 2*] 



" ' Now another message to tell your people. 



" ' Now some men have much work and invite all their friends to 

 come and aid them and they do so. Now this is a good plan and the 

 Creator designed it. He ordained that men should help one an- 

 other x (adanida'osha').' " 



So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk. 



section 28 



" ' Now another message of things not right. 



" ' People do wrong in the world and the Creator looks at all 

 things. 



" ' A woman sees some green vegetables and they are not hers. 

 She takes them wrongly. Now she is yeno n/ skwaswa'do n ', a thiev- 

 ing woman. Tell your people that petty thieving must cease.' So 

 they said. 



" ' Now the Creator gave Diohe"ko n 2 for a living. When a 

 woman sees a new crop and wishes to eat of it in her own house, 

 she must ask the owner for a portion and offer payment. Then 

 may the owner use her judgment and accept recompense or give the 

 request freely.' '' 3 



So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk. 



section 29 



" ' Now another message for you to tell your people. 

 'It is not right for you to have so many dances 4 and dance 

 songs. 



" 'A man calls a dance in honor of some totem animal from which 

 he desires favor or power. This is very wrong, for you do not 

 know what injury it may work upon other people. 



1 The bee is a very popular institution among the Iroquois. See Museum 

 Bulletin 144, p. 31. 



2 Meaning, " our life givers," the corn, beans and squashes. See Iroquois 

 Uses of Maize, p. 36. 



3 One of the old methods of -.gardening was to clear a small patch in the 

 woods by girdling the trees and planting in the mellow forest mold. The 

 name and totem of the owner of the garden was painted on a post, signify- 

 ing that the ground was private property. The clan totem gave permission to 

 any hard-pressed clansman to take what he wished in emergency but only 

 in such a case. These isolated gardens in the forests were objects of 

 temptation sometimes, as the prophet intimates. 



4 The Seneca had thirty-three dances, ten of which were acquired from 

 other tribes. See p. 81. 



