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“There is an Iroquois myth that describes a choice the nation was once forced to make. The myth has various forms. This is the simplest version. A council of the tribes was called to decide where to move on for the next hunting season. What the council had not known, however, was that the place they eventually chose was a place inhabited by wolves. Accordingly, the Iroquois became subject to repeated attacks, during which the wolves gradually whittled down their numbers. They were faced with a choice: to move somewhere else or to kill the wolves. The latter option, they realized, would diminish them. It would make them the sort of people they did not want to be. And so they moved on. To avoid repetition of their earlier mistake, they decided that in all future council meetings someone should be appointed to represent the wolf. Their contribution would be invited with the question, ‘Who speaks for wolf?”

Mythology Wolf Iroquois

Author:Mark Rowlands

“Six centuries ago, the pre-Colombian natives who settled here named this region with a word that in their language translates to, 'The Mouth of the Shadow.' Later, the Iroquois who showed up and inexplicably slaughtered every man, woman, and child in those first tribes renamed it a word that literally translates to, 'Seriously, Fuck this Place.”

Slaughter Native Americans David Wong Iroquois Undisclosed Mouth Of The Shadow Pre Colombian

Book:This Book Is Full of Spiders

Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders

“There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a young English nobleman, and an Iroquois in the forest, or an Arab in the desert are compared, it will be found that their real sources of happiness are nearly the same.”

Ifs Real Young Found Differences Stage Materials Source Civilization Highest Forests Desert Enjoyment Source Of Happiness Noblemen Iroquois

Author:Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

“Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls.”

Feels Book Ideas Running Balls Down And Caught Ass Swings Publish Iroquois

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.”

Stories Use Spiritual Jesus Century Exercise Tales Psychological Venues Peacemaker Odyssey Iroquois

Author:Jean Houston

“In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.”

People Past Remember Women Decision Leader History Generations Seven Civil Rights Decision Making Making Decisions Forget The Past Iroquois

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.”

Thinking World Feels Long Remember Turns Nature Animal Creation Perspective Healthy Mountain Equal Long Time Standing Ants Parcel Iroquois

Author:Janine Benyus

“Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.”

House Sides Middle Leaving Wide Passages Construction Two Sides Partition Iroquois

Book:France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

Source: France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada

“Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.”

Mother British Indian Iroquois

Author:Rachel Blanchard

“If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have established strong native states capable of adopting European war tactics and maintaining their independence to this day, as Japan kept her independence from China.”

Source: The Oxford history of the American people