15.) Excerpts from Longhouse Thanksgiving Address on "the Wind". (3 min read)

 The following two excerpts are presented in light of the climate change that is happening now. Recorded by Corbett Sundown in the 1950s for the Smithsonian Institute, Bureau of American Ethanology, Bulletin 183, by Wallace I. Chafe. Title- Seneca Thanksgiving address.

As with all oral traditions, there are variations and all variations are valid, this is how oral tradition is. Scholars agree that oral tradition is the best way to pass on accurate history and other information with miminal alteration. Reference to "Sky Dwellers" is from the Code of Hansome Lake, and is the same as "The Four Protectors." Chafe relates on translation: "the trouble is that the Seneca concept is broader then that expressed by any simple English term..." Also "So much has been said concerning the problems of translators that I shall make no other apology than to observe that Seneca and English are probably as unlikely as two languages can be."

First excerpt titled- The Wind:

"And the entire group is thankful. Now he thought, "I have finished the creation of the Earth". And indeed he decided "I shall have helpers." In the west he made it. It would be covered by a veil; slowly it would move and revolve. From there the wind would be coming, and the people moving about would be happy. And indeed up to the present time we are content with the strength of the wind. It is not such that the wind would be strong, where those of us who are called Indians dwell. And it is so: the Sky Dwellers told us. They said, "We believe that your Kinsmen will see it". It was when they were telling our great one, Handsome Lake. They told him, "We believe that your kinsmen will see it in the future. This will happen. The wind can become strong. And we believe that it will scrape off everything on the earth". And up to the present time we who remain see the way it happens. We are the ones who have good luck; it does not happen in the spots where we are located. We can indeed attest to what happens. For it is true what the Sky Dwellers said. They said, "It is the most important thing for us to watch, that it does not become too strong in its revolving." And it is just the right strength, that we are content. And let there simply be gratitude. And indeed again there is thanks that it continues as the Creator planned. And we ask that it will continue in the same manner for the period of another year."

Second excerpt title- Tobbacco Burning:

"...And again we use the tobacco. We give thanks for the thing that is covered by a veil, where the wind is formed. And your mind will continue to be so.

... and again the tobacco smoke rises. We ask that it will continue in the same manner. That the wind will be just so strong that we are content. We are happy; the wind is just so strong that we are happy. And we ask that it will continue in the same manner in future days. And your mind will continue to be so.

And now this is what our Creator did: indeed he decided, "Now I have finished the creation of the Earth. And now it must not be by itself in just this way. And I must make the wind on the earth." And in the west he made the thing that is covered by a veil. Slowly it moves and revolves. And now the wind is formed there, and now we who move about on the earth are happy. And the wind is just the right strength for us to be content with it; it strengthens our breath. He decided it would be so, with us whom he left on the earth. And again it was explained to us; the Sky Dwellers told us. They said, "We believe that your kinsmen will see that in the future it may happen that the wind will become strong over the earth. And we believe that it will scrape off everything on the earth and will destroy people's homes and property. That is what we believe, what is on our minds." And that is what the Sky Dwellers said, what they told us. And indeed we can attest to it; in these days it is true: we see it happen, that it scrapes off all their homes. But we ourselves are fortunate. We are not able to see it yet, up to the present time: that the wind would become so strong as to harm us. And therefore let there be gratitude. We shall be grateful that we ourselves, at least, are happy. And give it your thoughts, that we may do it properly: we now give thanks for the thing that is covered by a veil, for the wind. And our minds will continue to be so.

And now he decided, "There will be wind on the earth and it will be just so strong so that no one will be harmed." And the way things are, surrounding us it is stronger and brings harm to people, to children and old people. But where we Indians are living the wind strikes with less force. And another thing. They told us this, also. Where the wind is formed, it is called the thing that is covered by a veil. And there it is formed, the wind over the earth. And we shall do what we should with our minds. We now give thanks for the place where it is formed, the wind over the Earth. And our minds will continue to be so."

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