Haudenosaunee means people building a long house. That long house symbolizes a way of life where the many nations live in peace under one common law. Haudenosaunee operates under the oldest, continually-operating form of government, called the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee or Gayanashagowa.
External links
Haudenosaunee Home Page (http://www.sixnations.org/) : the official source of news and information from the Haudenosaunee.
We would like to invite you to participate in a March for Haudenosaunee Women's Rights to be held in front of the James M. Hanley Federal Building located at 100 S. Clinton St., Syracuse N. on September 14, 1995 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
One role of Haudenosaunee Women in our traditional native society is, as bearers of life, to assure that a sustainable environment exists for the next Seven Generations.
Haudenosaunee women have no voice in decision making nation meetings, all of their concerns and input must be approved of by a designated spokesman.
A medicine society is comprised of Haudenosaunee who have partaken of the medicine and are thereby bound to the protection and perpetuation of tile special medicines.
The exhibition of masks by museums does not serve to enlighten the public regarding the culture of the Haudenosaunee as such an exhibition violates the intended purpose of the mask and contributes to the desecration of the sacred image.
The sovereign responsibility of the Haudenosaunee over their spiritual duties must be respected by the removal of all medicine masks from exhibition and from access to non-Indians.
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