Hiawatha taught the people how to plant corn and beans. They learned much about planting, and they learned how to store food for winter time. While he was with the Onondagas the runners brought word that a great band of warriors was coming to fight them. The young braves put on their war paint. “Call a great council of all the tribes,” said the wise Hiawatha. “Let them meet on the hill by the lake.” It was Onondaga Lake. Swift runners carried word to four tribes. Their chiefs and great braves met on the hill by the lake, and their wives waited with them. All the people waited for three days, but Hiawatha did not come to the council. The chiefs sent men to Hiawatha on the morning of the fourth day to ask why he made them wait. Hiawatha answered: “The Holder of the Heavens has shown me that if I go to this council great sorrow will come to me. I was sent to teach you peace. I shall show you how to make war. I will come.” Then Hiawatha stepped into his white stone canoe, and it went to the place of the great council, where the chiefs waited. All the great chiefs and the people shouted when Hiawatha came. He stood still in the council circle. His daughter stood beside him, but no one had seen her before. When her father looked at her she went to her place among the women. The first day of the council the chiefs told their plans, and Hiawatha listened. The second day he arose in the council, and the people listened. Hiawatha said wise words. All the chiefs remembered the words of Hiawatha. He made this speech: “My brothers: You are from many tribes. You have come here for one cause. It is to live in safety. We must join ourselves together. The tribes that are on the warpath are strong. Not one tribe here is equal to that great people. Make yourselves a band of brothers. Then you will be stronger than they. “The Mohawks that sit in council by that great tree shall be the first nation. They are the warlike people. “The Oneidas who sit by the great stone that cannot be moved shall be the second nation. They are a wise people. “The Onondagas that live at the foot of the great hills shall be the third nation. They are great in speech making. “The Senecas who live in the forest, and whose trails are found all over the land, shall be the fourth nation, for they have much wisdom in hunting. “The Cayugas live in the open country. Their wigwams are the finest, and their beans and corn grow like the grass on the plains. Their name is known for great wisdom; they shall be the fifth nation.” Hiawatha sat down in the council, and the third day the chiefs talked with one another; then they all said: “We will do this thing. We will be one nation. We will be called the Five Nations.” The council was ended. Hiawatha went to his canoe and called softly to his daughter. As she left the women a great cloud came in the sky. It was a thunder-bird. The great cloud took the daughter of Hiawatha, and she was gone.