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    peoples) the Great Law of Peace (Mohawk: Kaianere’kó:wa), also known as Gayanashagowa, is the oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy. The law was written...
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  • term peace, sometimes king's peace (Latin pax regis) or queen's peace, is the common-law concept of the maintenance of public order. The concept of the...
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    Hiawatha (category Year of birth unknown)
    thou do thy thinking in peace..." Afterwards, Hiawatha joined Dekanawidah in composing the laws of the Great Peace, and the Peace Hymn. Then Hiawatha and...
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    The Great Peace of Montreal (French: La Grande paix de Montréal) was a peace treaty between New France and 39 First Nations of North America that ended...
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  • tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy. The tribes gathered at Onondaga Lake, where they planted a Tree of Peace and proclaimed the Great Binding Law of the...
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    joined as one. According to Haudenosaunee tradition, the Great Law of Peace ended the ancient cycle of enmity and continuous conflict between the separate...
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    Sainte Marie among the Iroquois (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from December 2016)
    center named the Skä•noñh Center – Great Law of Peace Center. Skä•noñh, is an Onondaga welcoming greeting meaning Peace and Wellness. France portal North...
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    versions he provided of the Iroquois oral constitution, the Great Law of Peace. He acted as an advisor to the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs in matters...
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    Peace means societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict...
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    Iroquois Great Law of Peace and the United States Constitution, in American Indian Law Review, op. cit., pp. 506–507. Jacobs, Renée, Iroquois Great Law of Peace...
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  • Condolence ceremony (category Law stubs)
    The condolence ceremony or condolence council is a part of the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace. It governs succession to political offices after a leader...
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    result of the Great Law of Peace, said to have been composed by the Deganawidah the Great Peacemaker, Hiawatha, and Jigonsaseh the Mother of Nations...
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    Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris (International) Ltd [2002] EWCA Civ 1407 (also known as The Great Peace) is a case in English contract law which...
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    that some of Handsome Lake's teachings may contradict existing articles in their interpretation of the Great Law of Peace. The Second Great Awakening...
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    out of recognition," according to a 2013 Syracuse Post-Standard article. OHA runs multiple other entities, such as the Skä•noñh: Great Law of Peace Center...
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  • table of contents Anti-nuclear protests Anti-war movement Bed-In Department of Peace Gandhi Peace Award Gandhi Peace Prize Great Law of Peace Indira...
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  • Dish With One Spoon (category Treaties of indigenous peoples of North America)
    evidence of palisades built around villages and the earliest cultivation of corn supports a date between 900–1200 CE. In the Great Law of Peace there is...
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  • Breach of the peace or disturbing the peace, is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries and in a public order sense in the...
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    inhabited communities in the United States 1142: League of the Iroquois is founded, and the Great Law of Peace is adopted by the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga...
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    Latin for "power of the county"), frequently shortened to posse, is in common law a group of people mobilized by the conservator of peace – typically a reeve...
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    fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war. This treaty and the separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that...
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  • Eclipse That Marked The Start Of The Iroquois Confederacy". EarthSky. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "Kayanlaˀ Kówa – Great Law of Peace". Oneida. Oneida Nation...
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    "People of the Longhouse". Another inscription is found along the lower edge of the reverse spelling "Great Law of Peace" (an English translation of Gayanashagowa...
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    War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is a literary work by Russian author...
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    The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between...
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    convey. The origins of the royaner role are rooted in the Great Law of Peace (Kainere'ko:wa), which is the political constitution of the Haudenosaunee confederacy...
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  • contained in written transcriptions of the Constitution of the Iroquois Nation. The Great Law of Peace is an oral constitution passed on by member nations...
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    Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions'...
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    Pacifism (redirect from Religion of peace®)
    "Classic of Great Peace (Taiping jing)" foretells "the coming Age of Great Peace (Taiping)". The Taiping Jing advocates "a world full of peace". The Lemba...
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    man-made law, but a greater natural law, the Great Law of Peace. This law, in our view, is divine. The Haudenosaunee have a deep respect for the waters of the...
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