ANTH 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oren Lyons, North American Beaver, Great Spirit
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Video about oren lyons, the current faith-keeper" of the turtle clan of the onondaga at the time of the making of the video. Story of tree of peace, allegory for views of clans and spiritual leanings. Lacrosse big sport, originates among the native americans in north america, originally called the creator"s game" a contest favored by the great spirit. Used to live in nyc moved back to reservation, made faith-keeper back in 1967. Story goes the peace-maker" created the system of government the iroquois currently have with a spiritual message, create peace between the nations, basically story about the foundation of the league. Have a whole elaborate story about this involving all the leaders and peace- keeper banding together and using a spiritual boon to change the leader of the. Onondaga to be the best kind of man who could be and then joining them.
