[Music] great law of peace [Music] in the story of the peacemaker time is something that nobody is sure about exactly how long did it take for him to gather five foreign nations who are not only warring between themselves are wearing internally and internally into the family it was a very very bad time when I looked at Kosovo recently I thought the time must have been similar to that where the hatred was so embedded that there was no logic whatsoever it had its own energy did need logic anymore how it started probably don't even remember but it was fierce and I was thinking must be like that time among our own people [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] when they were meeting in that particular time when he had gathered the four nations and he said now let's go back to on a dog and we must bring they on a dog is in the terragamo and they couldn't penetrate he was in the swamp he lived in a swamp it's where he liked it he was fierce almost unrecognizable as a human snakes and his hair powerful quite content with his power they couldn't penetrate [Music] [Music] when the peacemaker first landed with the Mohawks to landed a mohawk sure and he was instructed to spend the night at a lodge not far from where he was and so he spent that first night at that lodge and at that lodge there was a woman from the Erie what we call a cat patient her name was chickens I saw and she said my Lodge is open to all men to anyone traveling on this path I have one rule leave your weapons of war outside the door and don't bring that discussion inside but rest yourself have something to eat sleep and so when he told her his mission she said I believe in that mission that's a beautiful mission I will help whatever I can do this is what I see here every day these men coming back I'm the work that they do and so at this time when he was stymied by the power of the Tubbataha he said sent for this woman maybe she can help and so they sent for her in the nose days you had to walk another unless there was a river for a canoe you walked and so she got there and they asked her I said do you think you have anything that we can we can use do you know of anything she says yes strange enough that you asked she said but I've been hearing this song mice birds brought long I've been hearing it in my head again and a dam and the dam and so she taught those leaders the song and when they started to sing the song and they moved towards the swamp that song pulled Terra da hoho against his will he was struggling not to be pulled out but it was a powerful song they were all scented in a united voice and he came out slow [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] at any rate Terry we were 49 liters the 50th one was a whole long story by itself that ended Ajo attended Ajo that he met had no compassion whatsoever fierce beyond fierce evil beyond evil he changed that man so they were able to have a discourse they were able to discuss and they said we need you to be here he said well why should I I have all that I need I'm quite satisfied that's what I am I don't know what you're about that's not what I'm about and they went out of that direction and they were singing and so they could see the snakes falling from his hair and he was starting to transform it's a human [Music] and so on the peacemaker finally gathered all the five nations at the shores of underdog a lake which is upstate central New York right now as an ancient ancient place with a great event occurred there on those shores but he gathered those leaders together and something meant find their clans and he laid out the process he gave everything to us this gave it complete we didn't evolve it it was just given he says I'm here's the process and here's how you will do this and so he said I'm gonna plant a great tree a great tree a piece here represent peace spiritual laws of the universe and he instructed leaders never to challenge those laws because you will not prevail and that's where we are today we seem to be challenged every single one of those laws and we will not prevail that's a prediction and so when he was talking to them all on the shores of an otaku Lake he said I'm gonna plant this great tree of peace for all to see this great white pine it's gonna reach to the sky it will have four white roots of truth four white roots of peace going in the four cardinal directions of the earth and those people what poetical can followed that route back to its source and agree to our law of peace and come under its great branches and he said I'm going to place on top of this tree the eagle the leader of all the birds and his duty will be to watch anything coming forth and he said in the hands of those leaders you you leaders I will place a wing feather to brush away all things that are coming to the tree on this route as the men [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and finally they said if you agree to join this Confederation of Peace the node Allah will be the center fire and your title your name - Dada who will prevail from here on and hear critic and that's how the United Nations came together peace [Music] [Music] [Music] and so he set up this Confederation and he said now I'm going to uproot this tree and into this hole I want all of you men to bring your weapons of war cast it into this hole he says and the underground currents will carry them the four directions and so he did and one by one they came and they sued her weapons of war into the hole he said you are now a nation of peace ruled by law ruled by the good minds and that's how it began [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] and so that symbol still prevails saved here great law of peace [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] this tree represents our people what kind of tree is it did it tree of great peace the peacemaker gave the grade laws of peace to the Iroquois in the dark times many years ago I had watch a spoke for the peacemakers Chiefs have brought ruin and despair to your children through war we must fling this burning demon into the underground river to be carried away forever God peace now Ronald peace and the power of the great peace drove the evil from [Music] does the great piece still have power you're here aren't you [Music]