Dekanawidah Research Paper

Dekanawidah Born to a nation in Hurons, know present day Ontario, Canada, Dekanawidah knew he was distended to accomplished great thing in life from an early age at life. His mother had a dream about baby boy she would have named Dekanawidah and he would grow up to something great. When he was born, his mother was instructed by his grandmother to drown the child in the river since he was born to a virgin mother who refused to tell her mother who the father, creating bad luck for the nation. “You must tell me the father of this child, if you won’t, you’ll bring bad luck to this nation. You must go drown him now!” exclaimed the mother.
But when he was put in the river to drown, he miraculously survived and the second attempt as well. …show more content…
He is distended to do great things in life, just as my dream said he would,” expressed his mother.
And from that day forward nursed and raised him until he grew big and strong, which he did quite rapidly. When he grew up, he left and traveled to the people of Mohawk. Once he arrived, he noticed that the Onondagas and the Mohawks were in a constant war that was never ending. To try and fix the conflict between the two of them, he proposed the vision of peace he had to the Mohawks, but were unconvinced; part of it may have to do with his speech problems and to fix this he proposed a new way to convinced