Tarenyawagon: Emerging from Darkness
This post should be read in conjunction with The Great Peacemaker post. I believe they go hand in hand. There are two Tuscarora sources published 55 years apart from each other in the 1800s, that have been on my mind lately. The first reason is because they describe an earlier people who destroy themselves on this land. (I apologize in advance for not providing all the page numbers. This is because I only have Kindle versions of these books.) “A blazing star fell into a fort situated on the St. Lawrence and destroyed the people; this event was considered as a warning of their destruction. After a time a war broke out among the northern nations which continued until they had utterly destroyed each other, the island again become in possession of fierce animals. ” David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, by David Cusick, 1826 “A blazing star fell into their fort, situated on the banks of the St. Lawrence, and destroyed the people. Such...