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The Iroquois Book of Rites by Horatio Hale
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the Introduction, p.67.

24. _Ne nayakoghstonde ne nayeghnyasakenradake,_ "by reason of the neck
being white." The law prescribed in this section to govern the
proceedings of the Council in the case of homicide has been explained in
the Introduction, p. 68. The words now quoted, however, introduce a
perplexity which cannot be satisfactorily cleared up. The aged chief,
John S. Johnson, when asked their meaning, was only able to say that
neither he nor his fellow councillors fully understood it. They repeated
in council the words as they were written in the book, but in this case,
as in some others, they were not sure of the precise significance or
purpose of what they said. Some of them thought that their ancestors,
the founders, had foreseen the coming of the white people, and wished to
advise their successors against quarreling with their future
neighbors. If this injunction was really implied in the words, we must
suppose that they were an interpolation of the Christian chief, David of
Schoharie, or possibly of his friend Brant. They do not, however, seem
to be, by any means, well adapted to convey this meaning. The
probability is that they are a modern corruption of some earlier phrase,
whose meaning had become obsolete. They are repeated by the chiefs in
council, as some antiquated words in the authorized version of the
scriptures are read in our own churches, with no clear
comprehension--perhaps with a total misconception--of their original
sense.

27. _Enjonkwanekheren_, "we shall lose some one," or, more
literally, we shall fail to know some person. This law, which is fully
explained in the Introduction, p. 70, will be found aptly exemplified in
the Onondaga portion of the text, where the speeches of the "younger
brothers" are evidently framed in strict compliance with the injunctions
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