While the Hodinohsho:ni have been portrayed as warriors, conflict was always last resort to preserve peace. In the history of the Great Law, it is recounted that the Peacemaker instructed all the chiefs and warriors to bury their weapons of war beneath a large white pine tree, advocating for them to cultivate a “good mind.” The introduction of European weapons, combined with disease, the fur trade, and wars among colonial nations, escalated tensions and intensified conflict between Indigenous Nations. H. George