Tree of Peace

If any other nation ever wished to join the League, it would have to follow the White Roots of Peace to the source and take shelter beneath the tree.

The creation of the tree of peace figuratively gave the chiefs the ability never to die, "because their chiefly titles would be passed down to their successors forever.

[4] The Tree of Peace has its roots in the creation of the League of Five Nations, but its place within the Haudenosaunee culture is crucial to its role in the continuation of its existence to this day.

As Barbara Graymont states, This transformation of the historical account shows the extent to which these events had taken on a sacred character for the Iroquois.

According to Haudenosaunee tradition, the Great Law of Peace ended the ancient cycle of enmity and continuous conflict between the separate tribes and united them into the Iroquois Confederacy that made them into the most powerful force in North America until the rapid expansion of European colonization in the 18th century.