Talk:Handsome Lake
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Since the Longhouse Religion retained pre-contact ceremonies, The Great Law of Peace and the myths of the Haudinosaunee; Handsome Lake is more appropriately a Reformer of rather than a Founder of the religion.
(Information from "The Code of Handsome Lake, the Senaca Prophet" by Arthur C. Parker [1913]
[edit] Great Law vs. Code of Handsome Lake
While it appears that many if not most in the Longhouse follow the Code of Handsome Lake, some feel that it does great harm to the original Great Law.
see: TRADITIONAL CULTURE AND COMMUNITY COMPETITION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE ON-GOING STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE GREAT LAW AND THE CODE OF HANDSOME LAKE IN KAHNAWAKE
