Also there's a famous painting that shows terms of peace drawn up with Ulysses S. Grant with Robert E. Lee that was written by a Union Seneca, at Appomattox, Virginia, ending the American Civil War that's interesting. The Secretary of War was mad, he wasn't in on it.
Posted by georgejmyers at 10:27 PM : Dec 16, 2006
"A Native American people formerly inhabiting western New York from Seneca Lake to Lake Erie, with present-day populations in this same area and in southeast Ontario. The Seneca are the westernmost member of the original Iroquois confederacy" -answers.com (alt-click) Sometimes referred to as the Erie, Neutrals or Long-tail cat people, the "Death and Rebirth of the Seneca" in western New York State has been written about the late 18th early 19th century Seneca religion. Maybe Handsome Lake's prayer "The White Dog Sacrifice" at the Iroquoian New Year (February or "ticha" as I recall, the toughest time of the year, as storage ran low) was actually a "deer" since there's no mention of a dog other than in the title in the long "Wotokwaiiendakwa Gaiantguntgwaa" prayer. And unicorns are only on the medieval tapestries in the Cloisters in NYC. Surely they should be preserved!
Posted by georgejmyers at 10:13 PM : Dec 16, 2006
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