THE CODE OF HANDSOME LAKE 45 



<4 ' Chiefs and high officers have spoken derisively of each other 

 and quarreled. 1 What they have done must not be done again.' ' 

 So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk. 



section 43 



" 'Now another message to tell your people. 



" ' Good food is turned into evil drink. Now some have said that 

 there is no harm in partaking of fermented liquids. 



" ' Then let this plan be followed : let men gather in two parties, 

 one having a feast of food, apples and corn, and the other have 

 cider and whiskey. Let the parties be equally divided and matched 

 and let them commence their feasting at the same time. When the 

 feast is finished you will see those who drank the fermented juices 

 murder one of their own party but not so with those who ate food 

 only.' " 



So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk. 



section 44 



" ' Now another message for your people. 



" ' You have had the constant fear that the white race would 

 exterminate you. 2 The Creator will care for his Oiigwe'o n we (real 

 people).' " 



So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk. 



section 45 



" ' Now another message for your people. 

 ' Some of your relatives and descendants will say, " We lack 

 an understanding of this religion," and this will be the cry of the 



1 Jealousy was the principal cause of the dissension that led to the decay 

 of the League of the Iroquois. 



2 The Iroquois saw that the white race had encircled them and were draw- 

 ing the lines ever tighter. They saw that they were in a position of great 

 disadvantage, living as they did in the midst of a people against whom they 

 had fought not only in their own wars but also as allies of the British. 

 They saw how all other native tribes had been swept away with the advance 

 of the invading race and thus no wonder they feared. Yet today (1912) 

 they still exist unabsorbed and as a distinct people in the midst of the 

 civilization of the Empire State under their own tribal laws and recognized 

 nominally as nations. The story of how they have preserved themselves 

 through three centuries of contact with an invading race that had little love 

 for them and whose policy like their own in ancient times, is to absorb or 

 exterminate, to accomplish a thing that no other aboriginal race has done, 

 is well worth a place in history as one of its marvels. " Truly the Creator 

 has cared for his red children!" 



