LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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They can sleep under the tree.
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They can seek shelter during a storm.
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They are allowed to build homes under the tree.
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They will be allowed to join the confederacy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -White Pine Tree/ Great Tree of Peace The white pine tree was the tree chosen by the Peacemaker as a symbol of the unity of the nations of the Haudenosaunee confederacy. Its needles which always grow in clusters of five are symbolic of the uniting of the nations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Iroquois Great Law of Peace was a constitution that established a democracy between five Iroquois-speaking tribes-the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk. This group of five nations, called the Iroquois Confederacy, was established around 1450.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is meant by the expression that all who obey the laws of Great Peace “shall be welcomed to take shelter beneath the tree of the long leaves?” He should not be easily offended.
Detailed explanation-4: -What are some of the key components of the Great Law of Peace? OREN LYONS: The first principle is peace. The second principle equity, justice for the people. And third, the power of the good minds, of the collective powers to be of one mind: unity.