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Updated: June 15, 2025
And the million stars were the lights of camp-fires. And the love-song was the Karenna. And the water you beheld was the river culled Chemung." The girl seemed stunned, standing there plucking at her fingers, scarlet lips parted, and her startled eyes fixed upon the white-draped sibyl. "Executioner! Bend your bow!" cried Amochol, with a terrible stare at the Sorceress.
And so it was done there, I prompting her with her responses, and the mysterious rite witnessed by the priesthood of two nations Sachem and Sagamore, Iroquois and Algonquin, with the tall lodge-poles of the pines confirming it, and the pale ghost-flowers on the moss fulfilling it, and the stars coming one by one to nail our lodge door with silver nails, and the night winds, enchanted, chanting the Karenna of the Uncut Corn.
If the Hurons, as has been shown, were expelled from their abode on the northern shore of the St. The "karenna," or chant of the Condoling Council, may be styled the National Hymn of the Iroquois. A comparison between it and other national hymns, whose chief characteristics are self-glorification and defiance, might afford room for some instructive inferences.
We need not doubt that Chief David of Schoharie, or whoever else was the scribe appointed to this duty, has faithfully preserved the substance, and, for the most part, the very words, of the speeches and chants which he had often heard under such impressive circumstances. The hymn, or karenna, deserves a special notice.
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