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Chief Jake
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The Mother Of All Nations He had met this lady on his travels. This lady is supposed to have been - I guess she was a cannibal. This woman, she lived by herself, and he noticed what she was practicing; it was not good. So he told her about Peace, of the Good Tidings Of Peace and she was the first woman who grasped the Great Laws of Peace and gave up all of her wrongdoings at that time so he told her, "You will be the Mother Of All Nations because you were the first woman that I have come to and you were the first woman to grasp the Great Laws of Peace." So he told her that she would be present when he elevated the rest of the Chiefs because he needed all the five nations - the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas and she would have to be there to help him to complete the League. So when they held the big condolence council at Onondaga lake, he told them, now we are going to have a rest for a period of three days so you must all go back to your own villages. He told them when they left, "You must bring all your women and you must bring your clan with you, too. All the Mohawk clans, Oneida clans, Onondaga clans, Cayuga clans, and Seneca clans. And all the women because the women belong to these clans and so that is what you will tell your people when you get back." When they got back, they informed the people what was going to happen. Everybody was so excited. Everything was beginning to take shape now with the Confederacy. Women Choose The Chiefs Came the third day and they were back to where this condolence ceremony was. The first thing the Peacekeeper asked was if everybody brought their clan, and he asked the Mohawk women who did they choose as their candidate for this role of Chief; who did they select in their nation. So he said, "Come forward, and all the women came forward. He told them, now, what clans have you bought and what clan do you belong to, that is where those Sachems will belong, in that title, and it will be under that clan and that woman will be the one to be the owner of those titles. All the women of the Oneidas, all the women of the Onondagas, all the women of the Cayugas and Senecas. All you women now, you will be the ones who will choose from here on in. Someday, the Chief may die, pass away on this earth. But that is how long it will last, what they call a life chief; until he dies. But it will be up to you women to dehorn that Chief before he dies, to lift the burden, the role he had during the time that he walked upon this earth. So it will be up to you women to look after that, what they call funerals and also elevating Chiefs. " Women Have The Right To Impeach The Chiefs As you will have the right to elevate a Chief, so you will also have the right to impeach the Chief if he does not obey the rules of the Great Law. So the Laws that we have made, all Chiefs of every Nation will follow and if they do not, they will have three warnings. They will be warned two times initially, and if he disobeys, then with the third warning he is now being impeached by the Clanmother. And so it will be up to all you clans to look up to the Chiefs; that you keep them in line. If you see your Chief getting off the track, you can speak to him. Give him a warning and if he disobeys, then give him a second warning. And if he disobeys, then the third time you can and you will impeach your Chief. And you can then make a new Chief. There are things that will also disqualify the Chief . The main thing is if he does not obey the Clanmother and if he wants to go on his own way and only wants to use his own mind. Or if he wants to overrule his colleagues or the whole Confederacy, it will be your place, the Clanmother, to remind him of his role as chief. |
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