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162: 31: 223:. Although this constitution protects the rights of religious ceremonies which have been in practice prior to ratification and acknowledges the duties of positive role models to the community, this movement contends that some of Handsome Lake's teachings may contradict existing articles in their interpretation of the Great Law of Peace. 169:
The Gaihwi:io is proclaimed twice a year: at the Midwinter Thanksgiving, which falls sometime between January 15 and February 15, and again at the Six Nations meeting in September. Usually the preachers are exchanged between reservations for the event. A full recitation takes three days, mornings
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Handsome Lake vested responsibility for preaching the Gaihwi:io in a number of "holders of the Gaihwi:io", as of 1912 six in number. Since the transmission was oral, the versions began to diverge. In the 1860s the holders of the Gaihwi:io met at
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The Second Great Awakening was a religious movement in the United States beginning around 1790. It has been described as a reaction against skepticism, deism, and rationalism. This movement was centered in the so-called
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professor Peter W. Williams stated that over time the movement became more routinized and more resembles "such 'cultic' religions on the borderline of traditional Christianity such as
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strand. Some of the congregation sits on benches placed across the longhouse and the remainder sit on benches placed along the walls. Women cover their heads with a shawl.
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reported that the Gaihwi:io had about 5,000 practicing members as of 1969. Originally the Gaihwi:io was known as the "new religion" in opposition to the prevailing
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only. Before sunrise on each morning of the three days the preacher stands at the fireplace of the longhouse and sings the Sun Song to ensure good weather.
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received his revelations while in a trance, after which he ceased drinking and formed the movement. Ganioda'yo's teachings were encoded in
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During the ceremonies the preacher stands before the fireplace, aided by an assistant who sits beside him holding a white
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Prior to the adoption of the single-family dwelling, Iroquois lived in large, extended-family homes also known as
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at the former home of Handsome Lake. They compared versions and, when differences were found, Seneca Chief
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Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective
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Popular Religion in America: Symbolic Change and the Modernization Process in Historical Perspective
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and memorized the corrected version. Chief Jacket gave the written copy to Chief
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and spread through the populations of western New York, Pennsylvania, and
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Religion including traditional Iroquois beliefs and Christian elements
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Onondaga longhouse on the Six Nations Reservation in the early 1900s
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is the popular name of the religious movement also known as the
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Dreams, Dreamers, and Visions: The Early Modern Atlantic World
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At the age of 64, after a lifetime of poverty and alcoholism,
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on letter paper. When he was done the group reassembled at
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Encyclopedia of Native American Religions: An Introduction
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Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy).
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Handsome Lake Preaching at Tonawanda by Jesse Cornplanter
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adjudicated the correct version and wrote it down in the
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beliefs, but has since become known as the "Old Way" in
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Johanson, Bruce Elliot; Mann, Barbara Ellis (2000).
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The atmosphere at the ceremony somewhat resembles a
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Index

Longhouse religion

Seneca
Handsome Lake
Quakers
Anthony F. C. Wallace
animistic
opposition to Christianity
longhouses
theaters
Ganioda'yo
wampum
Iroquois
Cold Spring
John Jacket
Seneca language
Cattaraugus
Henry Stevens
Edward Cornplanter
New York State Archives
William Bluesky

wampum
revival meeting
First
Second
Great Awakenings
Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker
Great Law of Peace
constitution

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