Karonhiaktajeh (Louis Hall) was Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) from Kahnawake, unceded sovereign Mohawk Territory. Karonhiaktajeh foresaw our struggles as Native People and prepared us for the coming revolution/evolution. Karonhiaktajeh is one of our great visionaries, and I, Kahentinetha, have a duty to share with the world one of his final messages before he died in 1993.
There is a revolution, not just brewing, but in effect in the Iroquois Confederacy. The rebels are not the bearded, uncouth and unkempt characters skulking in the dark alleys of a city. These are Iroquois Chiefs and some followers who are revolting against the Great Law, Gayanerekowa, many parts of which were copied in the United States Constitution which in turn were copied by other constitutions in the world. The Great Law is the Iroquois Constitution which the rebels have put aside and have installed the Handsome Lake Code in its place. The Handsome Lake Code is a copy of the Quaker Code which is not an Indian device.
The action by the rebels is in violation of the Two Row Wampum Treaty where in the two parties, the Indians and the white men, agreed to keep their laws, religion and customs in their own respective vessels. The rebels reached into the white man’s ship and took out the white man’s religion, laws, customs and adopted them as their own.
The rebels now refuse to read the Iroquois Constitution which makes them ignorant of their own laws and they even refuse to speak the name of Deganawida and his works by burying his name. There has to be a hand of the white man or men in this attack on the Iroquois Confederacy. Divide the Confederacy into many parts so they’ll be destroyed.
The Quakers so greatly admired by the rebels have a record of resisting governments, which attracted the unwary segment of the Iroquois population in the first place. The Quakers will not do military service. The Quakers will not even defend their lives if attacked. They shall not fire a gun in self-defence. The Handsome Lake Code has adopted the Quaker death wish religion. They have erased their instinct of self preservation which has been called “god given” and necessary to keep the people in existence.
There will of course be a general rejoicing among the white population if the red race becomes extinct for then the invasion of America, the slaughter of millions of Indians and the stealing of two whole continents will be “justified” since the Indians were going to disappear “anyway”. The biggest crime in the history of the world will then be justified.
Dissolving the Iroquois Constitution (Great Law) will result in the termination of the Iroquois Confederacy. The nation needs a constitution to exist. The rebels prefer to be under the Handsome Lake Code which is not a constitution. Whether they realize it or not the rebels are working to end the Iroquois Confederacy. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
There have been rebels in the past. Louis Riel was hanged in 1838. Two of the 75 rebels captured in the attack on Kahnawake during the 1837-38 rebellion were hanged in Montreal. There were many others executed during rebellions in the past. This shows the seriousness in which a rebellion is regarded. In this instance, the rebellion is an attack on the very existence of the Iroquois Confederacy.
We do now exhort and entreat the Six Nations rebels to return to the Great Law, Gayanerekowa, the Iroquois Constitution. It is unthinkable for a nation not to have a Constitution. It stops being a nation. The 2nd paragraph of wampum 58 of the Iroquois Constitution reads:
A further meaning of this is that if anytime any one of the Chiefs of the League choose to submit to the law of a foreign people, he is no longer in but out of the League and persons of this class shall be called “They have alienated themselves” (Tehonatonkoton)—likewise, such persons who submit to laws of foreign nations shall forfeit all birthrights and claims on the League of Five Nations and territory.
The rebels did exactly this when they submitted to the Quaker Code via the Handsome Lake Code. The dictionary defines “code” as a “body of laws of a nation”. Since the Handsome Lake Code is a copy of the Quaker Code, it takes no great brain to see that the rebels have switched allegiance and that they are now Quakers. They have alienated themselves from the Iroquois Confederacy and do “hereby forfeit all birthrights and claims on the League of Five Nations and territory”.
This law was made when the Confederacy was still Five Nations. Some of the rebels cannot read nor write and no doubt have been led astray. Handsome Lake Himself could not read nor write and had to sign with an (X) mark. His nephew Henry O’Beal son of Cornplanter, was a quarter Seneca but 100% Quaker wrote the Handsome Lake Code copying from the Quaker Code.
It is not too late nor is it too hard to hold the Pledge Wampum in hand and make the Pledge to return to the Great Law, to defend and protect the People and the land. The rebels are hereby being earnestly urged to return to the Great Law and be once more an Iroquois people. One cannot be an Iroquois if he does not follow and obey the Iroquois Constitution. It is the Iroquois Constitution that makes a man or a woman an Iroquois.
– Defenders of the Great Law.
Happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful men and fathers!
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