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'''Handsome Lake''' (1735-1815) Born in the Seneca village of Conawaga, Handsome Lake, a member of the Turtle clan, and one of the noble hoya'nê`families, was a Seneca who, after a series of visions, provided the "Gai'wiio" (guy we you) or "Good Message" to a Seneca nation devasted by centuries of contact with white European colonizers. The Gai'wiio is (or was) the foundation of the Seneca Six Nations "new religion." <ref>Parker, Arthur C. The Code of Handsome Lake The Seneca Prophet. Kindle. New York: The University of the State of New York, 1913. https://amzn.to/2H4fr8a.</ref> | '''Handsome Lake''' (1735-1815) Born in the Seneca village of Conawaga, Handsome Lake, a member of the Turtle clan, and one of the noble hoya'nê`families, was a Seneca who, after a series of visions, provided the "Gai'wiio" (guy we you) or "Good Message" to a Seneca nation devasted by centuries of contact with white European colonizers. The Gai'wiio is (or was) the foundation of the Seneca Six Nations "new religion." <ref>Parker, Arthur C. The Code of Handsome Lake The Seneca Prophet. Kindle. New York: The University of the State of New York, 1913. https://amzn.to/2H4fr8a.</ref> | ||
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Handsome Lake (1735-1815) Born in the Seneca village of Conawaga, Handsome Lake, a member of the Turtle clan, and one of the noble hoya'nê`families, was a Seneca who, after a series of visions, provided the "Gai'wiio" (guy we you) or "Good Message" to a Seneca nation devasted by centuries of contact with white European colonizers. The Gai'wiio is (or was) the foundation of the Seneca Six Nations "new religion." [1]
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Handsome Lake had an unknown "wasting disease" and was a "miserable victim of the drink habit"[2] who had a vision of "four beings," after which he recovered.[3]
His Great Message, the result of his vision, "created a revolution in Iroquois religious life." He created a new "religious stem" [4]
Footnotes
- ↑ Parker, Arthur C. The Code of Handsome Lake The Seneca Prophet. Kindle. New York: The University of the State of New York, 1913. https://amzn.to/2H4fr8a.
- ↑ Parker, Arthur C. The Code of Handsome Lake The Seneca Prophet. Kindle. New York: The University of the State of New York, 1913. https://amzn.to/2H4fr8a.
- ↑ Parker, Arthur C. The Code of Handsome Lake The Seneca Prophet. Kindle. New York: The University of the State of New York, 1913. https://amzn.to/2H4fr8a.
- ↑ Parker, Arthur C. The Code of Handsome Lake The Seneca Prophet. Kindle. New York: The University of the State of New York, 1913. https://amzn.to/2H4fr8a.
