Five arrows shall be bound together very strong and each arrow shall represent one nation. As the five arrows are strongly bound
this shall symbolize the complete union of the nations. Thus are the Five Nations united completely and enfolded together, united into one head, one body and one mind. Therefore they shall labor, legislate and council together for the interest of future generations. Dekanawidah compares the Five Nations Confederacy to a bundle of sticks in order to illustrate the
<u>Dekanawidah compares the Five Nations Confederacy to a bundle of sticks in order to illustrate the understanding made between nations statin they would not disagree.</u>
Explanation:
The Iroquois Constitution, also known as the Great Law of Peace, is an oral narrative that documents the formation of a league of Five Nations Confederacy which date of origin goes way before the arrival of European settlers to America. In it, Dekanawidah who was the founder of the Confederacy, compares the Five Nations Union to a bundle of sticks that shall be bound together in order to work as one. This comparison is made to illustrate the understanding made between nations stating they would not disagree. As the leader expresses, the Five Nations must be enfolded together in order to work and legislate as one for the interest of all of its members, reinforcing the concept of unity as a key point for governance.
The strength of the unity amongst the Five Nations. When all of the "sticks" are together, it makes it substantially harder to break them, same with the Five Nations united together.
The inability to keep a secret. Actually it implies a woman can't keep a secret, but then who can. The secret she can't keep...her husband had the ears of a donkey.
