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132.The Legend of the Stone Coats (Genonsgwa)

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When daylight had come, one of the chiefs made an address of thanksgiving. He said: “I am very thankful that day has dawned in peace on this assembly here present. So now we give our thanksgiving to Him whose place of residence we still do not know but who has made our lives. So now you and I have finished this work, which puts an end to any bitter feeling between us that might in the future lead some one to scalp another. So now we will separate again. So now we, for our part, will start for our homes, and you, too, will return to your homes.”
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So it came to pass that the two peoples arrived safe at their homes, whence they had come forth to make peace with their enemies, and this peace has lasted unto this day.
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So this came to pass in this way. And this is the end of the legend.

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Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911, Project Gutenberg eBook #64176

131.The Legend of Genonsgwa457 133.The Story of the White Pigeon, the Chief of the Pigeons