ABSTRACT
Hiawatha, the great prophet of the Iroquois Confederation. He was a Mohawk of the Tortoise Clan—and probably lived about A.D. 1570. He recognized the fact that internal dissension and petty feuds were the greatest of the evils that preyed on the Redmen, and therefore founded the Iroquois League, a league of nations that aimed at general peace and well-being, substituting a tribunal of justice to settle internal disputes in place of the arbitrament of war.
