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The Great Peacemaker

The Great Peacemaker, is sometimes referred to as Deganawida or "Dekanawida." No one we know has drawn the direct correlation between Deganawida and and Ancient race off "Giants." According to Paul Wallace's seminal work titled The White Roots of Peace, Deganawida translated means "Double Row of Teeth." In the entire history of the world, only ONE race is known to have had a Double Row of Teeth - The Fallen Angels, or Grigori aka "The Nephilim."

Now I know what you are thinking... uhhhh, aren't they supposed to all have been evil and responsible for The Great Flood?

The Gibborim of King David

The Gibborim had a Double Row of Teeth. The "Mighty Men or Renown" seem related to Deganwida... the core of the Davidic Army was comprised of two corps of professional regular soldiers. The first of these were The Mighty Men of the Bible, or gibborim, two regiments built upon a group of special soldiers loyal to David's person called "The Thirty." The Great Armies of Antiquity by Richard R Gabriel

Native people, who think in a balanced manner, see there is a duality in all things, and we deduce that not all Nephilim were bad... some were good and actually fought for good... FOUGHT for the bloodline that would eventually produce The  Promised Messiah as its offspring.

The Great Peacemaker

Deganawida (although as a mark of respect some Iroquois avoid referring to him by this name except in special circumstances) was, along with Hiawatha, the traditional founder of the Haudenosaunee (commonly called the Iroquois) Confederacy, a political and cultural union of several Native American tribes residing in the present day state of New York. The effects of the union were far-reaching and included related Iroquoian peoples in Ontario, Quebec, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other places.

The Haudenosaunee name for The Great Peacemaker (Mohawk, Skennenrahawi) means “Two River Currents Flowing Together.”

The legends about The Great Peacemaker are conflicting. It is reported that he was born a Huron and by some accounts it was a virgin birth. Others say he was born an Onondaga and later adopted by the Mohawks. By all accounts he was a prophet who counseled peace among the warring tribes, and he also called for an end to cannibalism. His follower Hiawatha, a Mohawk renowned for his oratory, helped him achieve his vision.

The Prophecy

The vision from the Great Maker that peace would come to all nations led him to spend his life working to bring this to fruition. In his prophecy, he referred to a white serpent who would come to their lands and make friends with his people, only to later deceive them. According to the prophecy, at the end times, a red serpent would make war on the white one and after a season, a black serpent would come and defeat them both. He said that his nation would accept those of other origins into their safekeeping. Because of their worship of and obedience to the Great Maker, the Iroquois would be protected from the disasters to come.


Founding of 5 Nations, and later 6!

The Great Peacemaker established a council of clan and village chiefs to govern the confederacy. Each of the tribes had a balance of power between the sexes and most decisions were made by consensus to which each representative had an equal voice. Led by The Great Peacemaker and Hiawatha, the Iroquois became the dominant Native American group in the northeast woodlands. The oral laws and customs of the Great Law of Peace eventually became the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy.


The First Council

Now, at the first Council, the Peacemaker informed the chiefs that the Tree of Peace had sent forth roots in all directions, the Great White Roots of Peace. 'These roots,' he said, 'will continue to grow, advancing the good Mind and Righteousness and Peace, moving into territories of peoples scattered far through the forest... ' — from The White Roots of Peace, by Paul Wallace.

"Be strong of mind, O chiefs: Carry no anger and hold no grudges. Think not forever of yourselves, O chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground". (Deganawidah)


Impact on Modern Culture

The Peacemaker proclaimed, "If any man or nation shows a desire to obey the Law of the Great Peace, they may trace the roots to their source, and be welcomed to take shelter beneath the Tree."

Upon hearing the Peacemaker legend, Dr. Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, remarked, "This profound action stands as perhaps the oldest effort for disarmament in world history."

The Plan

From the book Iroquois On Fire by Douglas M. George-Kanentiio

"The plan was to create a mobile teaching group called The White Roots of Peace, which would bypass the media altogether and travel directly to Indian Reservations, Urban Centers, prisons and educational facilities. The members of the travel troupe would be schooled in Native activism and would teach others how to organize on the community level. They would advocate for the revival of traditional ways and encourage the direct application of Indian sovereignty as interpreted according to indigenous law and not those of Canada and the Unites States."

"The White Roots of Peace would carry not only such publications as Akwesasne Notes, the most radically nationalistic of all Native journals, but books, posters and artwork from throughout the Americas. It would provide entertainment in the way Native folk singers and traditional dancers. For one reasonable price a college could book the entire troupe and have native speakers address classes free of secondary interpreters, buy books from Native authors, or take part in a Mohawk-style social dance."

"The White Roots formula succeeded in lighting the fires of Native nationalism wherever it went. Its actual membership was fluid and might include a Mayan from Guatemala, an Anishnabe from northern Ontario, an Inuit from the Northwest Territories, or Lakotas from the Great Plains. But it's overall character was Mohawk and for ten years it crisscrossed the UNited States and Canada, pressing Indians to stand in defiance of the mechanisms of oppression."

Our Mission Statement - by Will Blueotter, Council Speaker, White Roots of Peace Council

Since 2004, the mission of The White Roots of Peace Council through Prophecykeepers Foundation is to fulfill the wishes of Hopi, Cherokee and Iroquois "White Roots of Peace" gatherings elders of the 1960s and 1970s in sending their prophetic messages around the world -- to establish peace through the worldwide realization of our ancient common global "relatedness."

This transmission of prophecies was prophesied--in the Hopi Prophecies--to occur once the "House of Mica" (United Nations) was built, and later visited by the Prophecykeepers... and their further instructions differed depending on whether they were allowed to speak, or not allowed.

They were effectively barred from speaking at the United Nations, because they were only allowed to speak when no one of importance was listening.

Since they were barred from speaking at the House of Mica, their "Original Set of Instructions" stated that they were to use any means necessary to get the messages out.

The original prophecykeeper elders are mostly all dead now... themselves stating that Purification day would closely follow their deaths... but a few adopted sons and daughters still remain to carry on, themselves up in age.

These prophecy messages are of utmost importance to the future of the planet, when very few survivors of the final holocausts will eventually meet each other, and the differences between them need to be minimized, so that life may go on in a peaceful, manner.

EARTH MOTHER CRYING, book #2 in the trilogy, was prophesied by Tuscarora Wallace “Mad Bear” Anderson.

We seek assistance of good-hearted persons in publishing soft and/or hard cover versions of these eBooks in all languages.

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THE GREAT WHITE ROOTS OF THE TREE OF PEACE

Roots have spread out from the Tree of Great Peace, one to the north, one to the east, one to the south and one to the west. These are the Great White Roots and their nature is Peace and Strength.

If any man or any nation outside of the Five Nations shall obey the laws of the Great Peace (Gayanerekowa) and shall make this known to the statesmen of the League, they may trace back the roots of the Tree. If their minds are clean and if they are obedient and promise to obey the wishes of the Council and of the League, they shall be welcomed to take shelter beneath the Tree of the Long Leaves.

We place at the top of the Tree of Great Peace an eagle who is able to see afar. If he sees in the distance any danger threatening, he will at once warn the people of the League.

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What is the Great Law of Peace?

The Great Law is the founding constitution of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. It is an oral tradition, codified in a series of wampum belts now held by the Onondaga Nation. It defines the functions of the Grand Council and how the native nations can resolve disputes between themselves and maintain peace.

The Peace Maker travelled among the Iroquois for many years, spreading his message of peace, unity and the power of the good mind. Oral history says that it may have taken him forty some years to reach everyone. Born of a Huron woman who was still a virgin, the Peace Maker, grew rapidly and one day announced that he had to journey forth to deliver a message from the Creator. He selected a white stone canoe to carry him to the Iroquois as proof of the power of his message. But he was met with much skepticism and the men that he came across refused to listen to him. After Jikohnsaseh rejuvenated his spirit, he continued and was able to persuade fifty leaders to receive his message. He gathered them together and recited the passages of the Great Law of Peace. He assigned duties to each of the leaders. To honor the role of Jikohnsaseh, he selected women as the Clan Mothers, to lead the family clans and select the male chiefs.

Women were given the right to the chief's titles and the power to remove dissident chiefs. Jikohnsaseh, by hearing of her actions, taught me to respect women and honor their role. Women are the connection to the earth and have the responsibility for the future of the nation. Men will want to fight. Women know the true price of war and must encourage the chiefs to seek a peaceful resolution.

The Peace Maker then established clans among the Haudenosaunee as a way to unite the Five Nations and as a form of social order. It is said that after he had assembled the leaders together around the Tree of Peace, he bestowed Chieftainship and clan affiliation on the fifty men who stood in a circle. He would assign clans based upon the order of animals that he saw that day. Some say that he sent each chief out into the woods and would report back on the first animal that they encountered, and that animal became their clan. A clan is a group of families that share a common female ancestry. Members of one clan are considered relatives and intermarriage in the same clan is forbidden. Clans are named after animals that have special assistance to the people - water (turtle, eel, beaver); land (bear, deer, wolf), sky (snipe, heron, hawk) Clanship identity is very important to the Haudenosaunee.

The Great Law is like a Great White Mat of Law upon which the Chiefs sit as they deliberate on the affairs of the nations. Burning before the assembled chiefs is the council fire, called "the great light," that never dies as long as the people believe in the Great Law. The kindling the council fire, considered sacred in that it purifies the words of those assembled, obligates the Chiefs to speak the truth. Also holding a council only in the daylight is another cultural mechanism to assure clear thinking. Meeting held at night are considered inappropriate and meant for foster dissent.

The Chiefs were to use the power of their mind to reason, to figure out what was best for the welfare of the people. The three main principles of the Great Law of Peace are: Righteousness (Good News), Civil Authority (Power), and also Mind (Reason) and the welfare work." We are to view the chiefs like a circle of standing trees, supporting the Tree of Peace that grows in the middle. They help to keep it from falling over. With each Chief was to be a helper, to keep the Chief standing tall.

Take the word Gaihwiyo, which has been translated in this document to mean righteousness. It's meaning is more like a wholesome doctrine that is good to be heard, because it teaches ethical behavior and communal values. But it also denotes the idea of justice, of being right because of the customs, manners, beliefs and ritualistic summations of the past experiences of the people. It is putting words into action.

The hardest part of the Great Law is to understand the meaning of the concept of peace. Peace is not simply the absence of war. In the Iroquoian mind, peace is a state of mind. Power, which can easily be thought of as military strength, but more appropriately, it means that one heart, one mind, one head, and one body allowed the Confederacy to remain united in the face of many enemies. Certainly, historians have painted a picture of the Iroquois as cruel expansionists. Iroquois fighting power was legendary. So the question arises: how can the Great Law promote peace if one of the conditions is to have power over weaker nations? Power can be the united strength of the Confederacy, standing together, negotiating together. Unity of action allowed the Iroquois to enjoy great success in dealing with the warring colonial powers.

But there is also a different kind of power in the Iroquoian universe. Each individual has a base spiritual power. As you go through life as Haudenosaunee, experience different things, learn more, comprehend more and tap into other forms of spiritual power, your own spirit grows as well. The old timers called it orenda. Everyone is thought to have it to some degree. It effects how we do things. Good minds have strong orenda. So the ultimate power of the Great Law rests in how well the individual person develops their sense of self, but develops that sense in regard to the well-being of the others, in the clan, in the village, in the nation and in the Confederacy of the Six Nations.

There have been several written versions of the Great Law, called Gawyehnehshehgowa. Today, no one version is preferred over the other and many traditional leaders feel that none of the written versions have all of the known oral history included. In examining the written versions the following common elements of the story of the Great Law of Peace become evident:

1) The Birth and Growth of the Peacemaker

A boy is born to the virgin daughter of a Huron woman. Ashamed and depressed, the grandmother tries to destroy the baby three times, until she is told in a dream that the boy is destined to bring forth a good message from the Creator. He grows rapidly and is honest, generous and peaceful.

2) The Journey to the Mohawks

The Peacemaker leaves in a white stone canoe for the land of the Mohawks where he finds war, killing, destruction and cannibalism. He announces that he is there to deliver a message from the Creator that war must cease.

3) Jikonsahseh Accepts the Message

The Mother of Nations takes in the weary Peacemaker and feeds him. He explains the principles of Peace, Righteousness and Power and the concept of the longhouse as a metaphor for the Great Law. She accepts the message, and in doing so, women are given priority in the League as Clan Mothers.

4) Ayenwatha Converts to Peace

Looking into the smoke hole of a house, the Peacemaker sees a man carrying a human body to the cooking fire. About to eat the flesh, the man appears into the pot but sees the face of the Peacemaker and is magically transformed. The Peacemaker teaches him to bury the body and eat deer meat instead. The antlers of the deer will be symbols of authority. The former cannibal, Ayenwatha, accepts the message of peace.

5) Peacemaker proves himself to the Mohawks

To prove his power, the Peacemaker sat in a tall tree that was chopped down into a deep ravine but emerged unharmed. The Mohawk chiefs accept the message.

6) The Confrontation with Tododaho

An evil and deadly wizard of the Onondaga with a twisted body and snakes for hair, blocked the path to peace. Tododaho made it so that the chiefs could not gather, making the waterways tip over their canoes.

7) Ayenwatha'''s Daughters are killed

A witch, Osinoh, transformed into an owl and killed the daughters, casting Ayenwatha into a deep depression.

8) Ayenwatha Leaves Onondaga

He left his home at Onondaga and became lost in his sorrow. He "split the sky" heading southward.

9) Ayenwatha invents wampum

Using either twigs, bird quills or shell beads, Ayenwatha makes strings of wampum that he hangs across a suspended wooden pole in an attempt to sooth himself.

10) Ayenwatha institutes protocols

He visits a Mohawk community and is given a honored seat as a chief. He teaches them to make a signal fire at the edge of the clearing to announce the arrival of a peaceful visitor, how to make wampum, and how to use the wampum strings to deliver messages. He leaves to continue his search for consolation.

11) The Peacemaker Condoles Ayenwatha

Using 8 of the 13 wampum strings made by Ayenwatha, the Peacemaker removes the pain and suffering of Ayenwatha and restores his mind so they can bring forth the message of the Creator. The Peacemaker decides that wampum will be used to carry that message.

12) Emissaries seek out Tododaho

The Peacemaker sends transformed animals - crows, bears, deer - to locate Tododaho.

13) The Cayuga, Oneida and Seneca Join

The two messengers visit the various nations as well as several visits with Tododaho. The other nations accepts the message. Tododaho still refuses.

14) Hai Hai - The Peace Hymn

With the combined power of all the assembled leaders who had accepted the message, the two messengers lead a procession, singing a magic song to soothe Tododaho. The song thanked the League, the Great Peace, the Honored Ancestors, the warriors, the women, and the families. Tododaho shouted his objection as the procession approached his encampment.

15) Tododaho is Transformed

With all of the other chiefs assembled, the Peacemaker promised to give Tododaho a central position in the Confederacy and to make Onondaga the capital for the Grand Council. He finally accepted the message and the messengers combed the snakes from his hair, straightened his body and dressed him properly. Tododaho became a man of peace.

16) The Circle of Chiefs

The messengers established the chieftainships as the protectors of peace. They were given instruction about what it takes to be a good chief. They announced the roll call of chiefs by nation and clan. The protocols for selecting chiefs, operating the council, and the role of the Clan Mothers was described. Warnings of the future were given. Deer antlers were placed on the heads of the chiefs, a wing fan to sweep dirt away from the council fire, and a pole to flick creatures away from the fire. The League was completed.

17) The Cultural Metaphors

The Peacemaker established the symbols of the Great Law. The longhouse has five fireplaces but one family. Wampum will record the messages. The Tree of Peace was planted in the center of the circle of chiefs. An eagle was placed on top to watch out for enemies. The White Roots of Peace stretched out across the land. The weapons of war were buried under the Tree. A meal of beaver tail was shared. Five arrows were bound together. The council fire was kindled and the smoke pierced the sky. These are all symbols of power that comes from the unity of peace.

18) The Protection of the League

Laws for adoption, emigration and rights of individuals and nations were established to allow those who seek peace to join. Warring nations would be given three warning they would be subdued.

19) The Condolence Ceremony

The same procedure used on Ayenwatha will be used when a chief dies in order to console the mourners and reaffirm life. This Requickening Address will maintain the stability and mental health of the Chiefs and the Confederacy.

20) The Peacemaker Departs

The message delivered and the Confederacy completed, the Peacemaker leaves but announces that in a future time of strife he will return. He also asked that his name not be used except in special cases.