The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781153364409
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...it of the Gaiwiio preachers several years ago, saying that a portion of the Oneida of the Thames wished to return to the old way. This some of them have done but they complain of the )ersecution of their Christian tribesmen who threatened to burn their council house. In other )laccs the case seems difterent and the prophets cause is not es )Oused with much enthusiasm In- the younger element to whom the white mans world and thought jircsent a greater appeal. The original Handsome Lake belt is still (lisi)laved at the religious cf)uncil at Tonawanda. (See plate 15.) Those who hve in coninuinitics in which the prophets word is still strong are drawn to the ceremonies and to the recitals hecause it is a jxirt of their social system. Its great appeal to the older people is that it i)resents in their ow n language a system of moral jirecepts and exhortations that they can readily understand. The )rophet, who is called our trcat teacher ( sedwagowane), was a man of their own hlood, and the ground that he traversed was their ancestral domain. Patriotism and religious emotion mingle, and, when the story of the great wrongs is rememl)ered, spur on a ready acceptance. The fraudulent treaty of Buffalo of 1838, for example, caused many of the Ruffalo Senecas to move to the Cattaraugus reservation. Here they settled at (lanundase or Newtown, then a desolate wilderness. Their hitter wrongs made them hate wdiite men and to resist all missionary efforts. Today there is no mission chapel at Newtown. All attempts have failed. Whether future ones will readily succeed is conjectural. The Indian there clings to his prophet and heeds the word of his teacher. At Cold Spring on the Allegany is another center of the old time people. On the Tonawanda reservation...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153364409 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153364409 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $12.27 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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