Five Ponds, Five Nations Poem by Zyw Zywa

In the Mohawk area are the 'Five Ponds Wilderness' and the 'Black River Wild Forest' --- The Iroquois are the league of the five tribes (nations) Mohawk, Oneida, Onanondaga, Cayuga and Seneca; this league is called Kaianerekowa = Great Law of Peace --- In the council of the league are speakers (sachem) those who bring the position of their group and try to convince the others to agree with it (the Aztecs named these speakers 'tlatoani', with Moctezuma as huey-tlatoami [supreme speaker]) ; it is honorable to be a speaker, but there is no power attached to it, so that the settlers wrongly treated the speakers as 'chief' --- Lake Erie: Erielhonan = Long-tail/Panther --- Lake Ontario: Ontario = Sparkling water --- Collection 'The drama'