O-TA-DE-NONE'-NEO NA WA'-TA

OR, THANKS TO THE MAPLE

"... Friends and Relatives, continue to listen: It is to perform this duty that we are this day gathered. The season when the maple tree yields its sweet waters had again returned. We are all thankful that it is so. We therefore expect all of you to join in our general thanksgiving to the maple. We also expect you to join in a thanksgiving to the Great Spirit, who has wisely made this tree for the good of man. We hope and expect that order and harmony will prevail... Na-ho'"

Seneca prayer
The League of the Iroquis
Lewis Henry Morgan