Joyce’s Reviews > The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle > Status Update

"In all your deliberations in the Council, in your efforts at lawmaking, in all your official acts, self interest shall be cast into oblivion. Cast not away the warnings of any others, if they should chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law, which is just and right. Constitution of the Five Nations. Powerful wisdom for those who were called savages.