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1 Arthur Caswell Parker & Seth Newhouse, The Constitution of the Five Nations 1 (1916)

handle is hein.cow/cfivny0001 and id is 1 raw text is: New York State Museum Bulletin
Application pending for admission as second-class matter at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y.
under the act of August 24, 1912
Published monthly by The University of the State of New York

No. 184

ALBANY, N. Y.             APRIL 1, 1916

The University of the State of New York
New York State Museum
JOHN M. CLARKE, Director
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FIVE NATIONS
BY
ARTHUR C. PARKER

PAGE
The Iroquois constitution .......  7
The Dekanawida legend ........ 14
The Code of Dekanahwideh ..... 61
Origin of the confederation of the
Five  Nations ................  65
The condolence ceremony ...... iO
The Hiawatha tradition ......... 114
Appendix A: The Passamaquoddy
wampum records ............. ii9

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PAGE
Appendix B: Sketches of an Indian
Council,  1846 ................  126
Appendix C: Minutes of the Six
Nations Council of 1839 ...... 133
Appendix D: Minutes of the Coun-
cil of the Six Nations, upon the
Cattaraugus reservation ....... 144
Appendix E: Certain Iroquois tree
myths and symbols ........... 152
Index  .........................  157

ALBANY
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
1916
REPRODUCTION BY PERMISSION OF
THE BUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
BUFFALO, NEW YORK

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