id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 22601 Hale, Horatio Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation A Study in Anthropology. A Paper Read at the Cincinnati Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in August, 1881, under the Title of "A Lawgiver of the Stone Age." .txt text/plain 7563 344 64 There was at this time among the Onondagas a chief of high rank whose summoned a meeting of the chiefs and people of the Onondaga towns. Hiawatha from Onondaga to the country of the Mohawks is to the Five chief Dekanawidah, whose name, in point of celebrity, ranks in Iroquois nation has always had a head-chief, to whom belonged the hereditary right in council, the adhesion of the Mohawk nation was secured. They finally accepted the league; and the great chief, who had the leading chief then expressed in the great council the voice of his When the League was established, Hiawatha had been adopted by the Mohawk nation as one of their chiefs. speeches in which he addressed the council and the people of the league took refuge with the Iroquois, and became the sixth nation of the League. As Hiawatha had been made a chief among the Mohawks, he ./cache/22601.txt ./txt/22601.txt