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Excerpt from Civil, Religious and Mourning Councils and Ceremonies of Adoption of the New York Indians For such calls wampum was used, with a tally stick attached to fix the date. The simple tribal council might do little to develop statesmanship, but Iroquois sagacity and eloquence were largely due to the annual or more frequent meetings of their five divisions, and the increasing outlook coming from these. When councils with the French, English and Dutch became frequent, there was a greater stimulus, and when distant tribes came to seek their favor or pay them tribute, they would not fail to become lofty in their bearing and farseeing in their plans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
