Iroquois Legend of Two Serpents

News From Indian Country | January 15, 1999 | Copyright

News From Indian Country
01-15-1999
Iroquois Legend of Two Serpents

copyright by Doug George-Kanentiio (NFIC)

There are many Iroquois stories passed down over the generations concerning the anticipated coming of the Europeans to North America and the attendant social, environmental and political changes.

When the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy was formed many generations before 1492, the Peacemaker, teacher of the Great Law of Peace, gave to the people predictions as to what would happen once he was gone.

He told the assembled five nations a story they were to tell their children across ...

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