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"You are more than four, you are seven," said Tayoga. Daganoweda understood, and smiled fiercely and proudly. "You have spoken well, Tayoga," he said, "but you have spoken as I expected you to speak. Onundagaono and Ganeagaono be the first nations of the Hodenosaunee and they never fail each other. We are seven and we are enough."
French. Ganeagaono, Mohawk, Agnier. Onayotekaono, Oneida, Onneyut. Onundagaono, Onondaga, Onnontague. Gweugwehono, Cayuga, Goyogouin. Nundawaono, Seneca, Tsonnontouans. In Indian social organization, a problem at once suggests itself.
The Onundagaono, the Keepers of the Council Fire, and the Ganeagaono, the Keepers of the Eastern Gate, be the first tribes of the Hodenosaunee, and better it be for a warrior of either to burn two days and two nights in the fire than to violate in the least the ancient customs and laws of the Hodenosaunee."
The flux and movement have been going on always among them just as it has among us. Races disappear, and new ones appear." "It is so, Lennox," said Tayoga gravely, "but the League of the Hodenosaunee is the chosen of Manitou. We, the Onundagaono, in your language Onondagas, Keepers of the Council, the Brand and the Wampum, know it. The power of the Long House cannot be broken.
The Keepers of the Eastern Gate have never departed by the width of a single hair from their obligations." Dayohogo turned his gloomy face upon the Onondaga youth, and it was lighted up suddenly by a smile of appreciation and pleasure. "Tayoga of the Onundagaono," he said in measured tones, "you have spoken well.
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