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The chiefs of the Clear-minded will continue to perform
the Role Call, and the chiefs and the people of the grieving nations
will go to the longhouse and sit on one side on the benches in the
longhouse. The other end of longhouse is empty and reserved for the
Clear-minded nations to sit when they enter in the longhouse. The
condolers arrive and enter the longhouse and the chiefs will sit in
their places on the benches. Their followers and the people will sit
down.
The man who is chanting the Role Call called the Hái-hi: will continue until its completed. Then he will sit down. The condolers will sing the first Five Songs, the national anthem or
sometimes called the Peace Hymn. When the condolers have completed the
Five Songs the man that is appointed will perform 'Over the Forest'
called Then the condolers will sing the last verse called The curtains in the middle dividing the Elder nations and the Younger nations is opened. Then the performer of the Raksóthai is performed until he completes it. Then he will sit down. The speaker for the condoling nations will speak on how the League was formed and the Laws that were made by our ancestors and the Peacemaker (Honóhsyóní:dóh) Then the speaker of the condoling nations will speak on the Twelve Sympathy Strings of wampum for comforting the grieving nations. He will start from the 'yellow spots in the stomach, blood stains on the council seat, covered with darkness, loss of sky, loss of sun, the grave, twenty words of sympathy, council fire destroyed by evil, faithkeepers, the chiefs two relations, evil medicine, and the light torch or notification of death'. |
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will do a few verses then he will sit down.
Raksótha. The condolers have completed the last verse. Then the person
continues to perform "Over the Forest".