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The Great Law of Peace THE GREAT LAW OF THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY WAMPUM 116: THE BURIAL RIGHTS When a dead person is brought to the burial place, the speaker on the opposite side of the Council Fire shall bid the bereaved family to cheer up their minds once more and rekindle their fires in peace, to put their house in order and once again be in brightness for darkness has covered them. He shall say that the black clouds shall roll away and that the blue sky is visible once more. Therefore, they shall be at peace in the sunshine again.