Answer:
Great Ceremony: the one of Mid Winter or New Year. The Iroquois festivities are the celebration that involves both thankfulness for all the past and hopes for the future blessings of nature.
Explanation:
The celebration was composed of different rituals throughout the nine days of celebration, all revolved around a new beginning of the spiritual year. Each of the six tribes of the Confederation (Mowhawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca e Tuscarora) took part, however there was no specific order for the events, and each of them could hold the celebrations on their part.
It usually began with the "Agitation of the ashes" and ended with a traditional closing ceremony.
- Ash Agitation
- Tobacco Invocation
- Ritual of Shared Dreams
- Bear Dance
- Peach Pits Game
- Dance of the Great Feather
- Closing Ceremony
