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  • I, Dekanahwideh, and the Confederated Chiefs, now uproot the tallest pine tree, and into the cavity thereby made we cast all weapons of war† Thus shall the Great Peace be established.

    -Dekanahwideh   fl.c.1450
    Traditional words from the Six Nations Confederacy (present- day Ontario and the Northeastern United States), one of the world's oldest constitutions, quoted in Paul  A  W  Wallace The White Roots of Peace (1946).

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