“We asked you for proof,” the great war chief said. “You have given us that proof. I had been waiting for your arrival, hoping that peace might be possible. Now I believe it to be so. I accept your message.”

Then the two assistant war chiefs spoke. “We accept your message as well.”

“Do all of the people accept the message of the Peacemaker?” the head war chief asked.

And all of the people answered with one voice, “Yes.”

The Peacemaker stood then and looked around at everyone gathered there, waiting to hear his words.

“Now,” he said, “we will soon enter a new time, a time of peace. We will all have a good mind, speak with one voice, and live together as one family. No longer will we have chiefs who lead us to war. Now we will elevate new kinds of leaders, men of good mind who will be known as royaners, peace chiefs.”

He turned to the head war chief. “You, great leader of the Flint Stone Nation, your name will always be spoken first in the roll call of these new chiefs because you were awaiting my arrival. Even though you doubted me, you came to accept this message. So your name will be He Who Was of Two Minds. I appoint the women of your clan to watch over you and make sure you always keep a good mind and abide by the will of the council of the clan mothers. When you leave this world, they are the ones who will choose whoever follows you and carries that same name.”

The Peacemaker then turned to the second assistant war chief, the one who had never doubted him.

“You, great leader, you never slept while awaiting my arrival. You spoke about my message of peace before anyone else. Now you will put away all thoughts of fighting and war. You will do the work of our Creator and you will find a way to remember all that happens here. You will be second on the roll call of the royaners, but first among them. Your name will be Hiawatha, He Who Is Awake. Soon, but not yet, you will travel by my side and become my voice.”

Then the Peacemaker turned to the first assistant war chief. “You doubted me and you were confused about what to do. But you also came to accept the message of peace. So you, too, will no longer be a war chief. Instead, you will work on behalf of the people. Because your decision would have gone either way, your name will be Equal Height. Like your two brother peace chiefs and all others who become royaners, the women of your clan will advise you and raise up whoever follows you to carry that name and responsibility when you leave this world.”