| Onondaga Language | English |
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We thank the Creator for his desire that there should be people on the Turtle Island and that the people would generate for a time to have memory. |
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We thank the Creator for the way he gave the people to speak with each other - our languages. |
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We thank the Creator for the beings of the waters and the growing things and the animals who give of themselves so that the people can make those things which they need beautiful - our traditional arts. |
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We thank the Creator for the messengers he sends to the people and for the way he gives the people to remember - the Elders, the Creation, the Great Law and the Code, among many things. |
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We thank the Creator for the way of making a place for the people to be with each other in a good way - the longhouse. |
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We thank the Creator for the long lives protected in the "good mind" of the Elders of the people so the people would have a memory of how to honour the good ways of the Creator. |
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That is all, for now. |
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Chief Jacob Thomas |