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Handsome Lake and the Longhouse religion

1799Notable

The Seneca leader Handsome Lake reports a series of visions and preaches a moral code known as the Gaiwiio. His teachings form the Longhouse religion still practiced by many Haudenosaunee.

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Documentbritannica.com
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