. League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois . w gathering thickly over the scat-tered and feeble remnants of this once powerfulLeague. Eace has yielded to race, the inevitable re-sult of the contact of the civilized with the hunterlife. Who shall relate with what pangs of regretthey yielded up, from river to river, and from laketo lake, this fair broad domain of their Iroquois will soon be lost as a people, in thatnight of impenetrable darkness in which so manyIndian races have been enshrouded. Already theircountry has been appropriated, their forests cleared,and their trails obl
. League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee, or Iroquois . w gathering thickly over the scat-tered and feeble remnants of this once powerfulLeague. Eace has yielded to race, the inevitable re-sult of the contact of the civilized with the hunterlife. Who shall relate with what pangs of regretthey yielded up, from river to river, and from laketo lake, this fair broad domain of their Iroquois will soon be lost as a people, in thatnight of impenetrable darkness in which so manyIndian races have been enshrouded. Already theircountry has been appropriated, their forests cleared,and their trails obliterated. The residue of thisproud and gifted race, who stiU linger around theirnative seats, are destined to fade away, until they 146 STRUCTURE OF THE LEAGUE. [Book L become eradicated as an Indian stock. We shallere long look backward to the Iroquois, as a raceblotted from existence; but to remember them as apeople whose sachems had no cities, whose religionhad no temples, and whose government had norecord. BOOK OF THE BOOK II. SPIRIT OF THE LEAGUE. CHAPTER L Faith of the Iroquois. — Belief in the Great Spirit. — The EviL-MlNDED, He-NO, THE ThUNDERER. GI-O, SpiRIT OF THE Winds.—The Three Sisters. — The Invisible Aids.—Witches.— Legendary Literature. — Immortality of-the Soul. — Fu-ture Punishments.—Moral Sentiments. — Burial Customs.—Abode of the Great Spirit. — Washington. — Spirituality oftheir Faith. — Its Influence. The mind is, by nature, full of religious tenden-cies. Man, wlien left to tlie guidance of his owninward persuasions, searches after the Author of hisbeing, and seeks to comprehend the purposes ofhis existence, and his final destiny. In every ageand condition of society, the best thoughts of themost gifted intellects have been expended upon re-hgious subjects. The conclusions reached by re-flective mind, under the inspiration of the worksof nature, are propagated from generation to gener-ation, until they gr
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