Contents
Contents
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| Page |
| Introduction | 5 |
| Handsome Lake | 9 |
| Effects of Handsome Lake's teaching | 14 |
| How the white race came to America | 16 |
| The Gaiwiio code | 20 |
| Sections 1 to 130: The Great Message | 27 |
| Part 2. Field notes on rites and ceremonies | 81 |
| White dog sacrifice | 85 |
| Ganeowo | 94 |
| Cornplanting and maple thanksgiving | 101 |
| Legend of the coming Death | 105 |
| The funeral address | 107 |
| The death feast | 110 |
| Medicine societies | 113 |
| Dark dance or pygmy ceremony | 119 |
| Society of otters | 121 |
| Society of mystic animals | 122 |
| The eagle society | 124 |
| The bear society | 125 |
| The buffalo society | 125 |
| Chanters for the dead | 126 |
| Woman's society | 126 |
| Sisters of the Dio`he:'ko | 126 |
| False Face company | 127 |
| Husk faces | 129 |
| Iroquois sun myths | 131 |
| Anecdotes of Cornplanter | 136 |
| Key to pronunciation | 139 |
| Index | 145 |