Tadodaho

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Tadodaho (Onondaga: Thadodá·hoʼ) refers to both a legendary Onondaga leader and a modern condoled chieftainship within the Haudenosaunee Grand Council. According to Haudenosaunee oral tradition, Tadodaho was a Native American leader of the Onondaga people before the Great Peacemaker and Hiawatha formed the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, or "Iroquois League". According to oral tradition, he had extraordinary characteristics and was widely feared as a sorcerer, but was persuaded by the Peacemaker and Hiawatha to accept the Great Law of Peace. After being healed of his evil ways, he became a founding hoyaneh of the Grand Council, where he was given the role of firekeeper and chair. The name Tadodaho has been passed on to the Onondaga hoyaneh (chief) chosen to preside over the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee since the founding of the Confederacy. Seen as the spiritual successor to the original Tadodaho, the position is selected by the 49 other hodiyanéshu, who are in turn selected by the Haudenosaunee...

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