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Kahnawake-Oka-St. Regis Belt
Category: 2 Price: $300.00 CAD
The Kahnawake - Oka- St. Regis belt is sometimes called the Seven Nations Belt. It is a record belt, meaning it records an event. It means this: Their path is not straight. They have forsaken the Great Law and gone to the land of the cross, Canada. This belt represents the union of the Seven Nations, and the crooked line at the bottrom represents that they were crooked (The Roman Catholic).
This particular belt embodies the pledge of seven Canadian Christianized nations to abandon their crooked ways and to keep an honest peace. It was given to the Five Nations by the Seven Nations to mark their submission to the power of the Iroquois Confederacy, with a promise of peace. The Seven Nations, organized and encouraged by French Catholic Priests, was a political union of parts of certain settlements of Iroquois and Algonquin whom the Catholic Missionaries had christianized and influenced.
The settlements were as follows: Mohawk Band , Algonquin Band, Nippissing Band, all at Lake of Two Mountains, part of Kahnawake Band, Oswegatchie Band (near Ogdensberg, NY), Hurons of Lorett and Abenekis of St. Francis. When the Oswegatchie were scattered by the whites, the priests said that St. Regis would take their place.
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