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SECTION 63

"'Now another message.

"'Tell your friends and relatives that there will be two divisions

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of mind 1 among the chiefs and head-men and among the people. Nevermore will your race be united.'"

So they said and he said. Eniaiehuk.


Footnotes

55:1 This seemingly obscure section is cleared of its mystery when the preacher explains that the divisions of mind refer to the Gaiwios'tûk or Christian and Oñgwe?onweka' or Indian parties. "Dewadia'ke? gani'goî?, broken in twain, the unity of purpose," is Chief Cornplanter's term.


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