A man who is called "the great peace" because he barried weopons unper a pine tree and called it the great peace.
huron
deganawida is the peace maker.
yes they did.
He lived in the east Western york city is now.
A guy named Deganawidah helped form the confederacy.
Deganawida and his disciple Hiawatha who single handedly brought about the unity of five warring tribes in America, many hundreds of years before Europeans settled the country.
The Great Law of Peace (Gayanashagowa) of the Iroquois Six Nations (Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora) was the oral constitution that bound together the Iroquois Confederacy. It was written on wampum belt, and was conceived by Deganawidah, known as The Great Peacemaker, and his spokesman, Hiawatha.
For purposes of war and diplomacy, an Iroquoian confederation- including the Seneca, Onondaga, Mohawk, Oneida, and Cayuga tribes- formed the League of Five Nations, which remained powerful well into the eighteenth century.
After WW1
The Oneida inhabited the inland forests that skirted Lakes Ontario and Erie. They lived in large fortified villages, related to the ancestors of the Iroquois nations. At the dawn of time, the Master of Life had commanded all people to live in love and harmony. Clearly the message had been forgotten, so the Master decided to repeat it. According to most versions of the story, the Great Masters spokesman was a Huron holy man, Deganwidah-the Peacemaker-who set out across Lake Ontario in a stone canoe. Landing on the southern shore, the holy man came upon Hiawatha, a clan leader of Mohawk descent who had lost all his daughters to tribal strife. Deganawidah offered words of condolence that lifted Hiawatha's grief and dried his tears; the same consoling words would later be repeated at Iroquois council meetings to promote good feelings and open minds. Then the prophet described a great Tree of Peace under whose branches the tribes would meet to resolve their differences. He enunciated principles of justice and equality; bloodshed would yield to a new sense of brotherhood among the people. As legend tells it, only an Onondaga chief named Atotarho resisted. Atotarho was a fearsome wizard,his body crooked, his mind twisted, his hair a mass of tangled snakes, eventually even he was persuaded to embrace the accord.
It comes from a tradition followed by some Native American tribes. At the end of a war, the tribes' chiefs would literally bury a hatchet as a symbolic gesture of their new peace.Not all tribes followed this tradition. However, it likely predated the European settlement of the Americas, and it was seen as a solemn and important ceremony. One 1664 account describes the Iriquois proposing peace as “proclaim[ing] that they wish to unite all the nations of the earth and to hurl the hatchet so far into the depths of the earth that it shall never again be seen in the future.”In fact, some sources claim that the practice of burying a hatchet came from the Iroquois. Per oral histories, the leaders Deganawidah and Hiawatha convinced the five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy (the Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca) to stop fighting, at which point they decided to bury their weapons under the roots of a white pine. The timing of this event is widely disputed, since the nature of oral traditions makes determining the exact date difficult, but it definitely happened prior to the mid-1600s.According to etymology blog The Phrase Finder, one of the earliest uses of the exact phrase “bury the hatchet" comes from a 1747 book, The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada. Here’s that passage:The great Matter under Consideration with the Brethren is, how to strengthen themselves, and weaken their Enemy. My Opinion is, that the Brethren should fend Messengers to the Utawawas, Twibtwies, and the farther Indians, and to send back likewise some of the Prisoners of these Nations, if you have any left to bury the Hatchet, and to make a Covenant-chain, that they may put away all the French that are among them.By the early 20th century, the practice was well known in the United States, and it was no longer exclusively associated with native tradition. In 1913, two former soldiers—one Confederate, one Union—commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg by purchasing a hatchet from a local hardware store and burying it at the site of the battle.