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Ga-gaah
Ga-gaah AmericaThe wise crow. When this divine bird flew from the kingdom of the sun, the Iroquois say, he carried in his ear a grain of corn which Hahgwehdiyu, the good creator deity, planted in the body of the earth goddess. This maize—the staple of the Iroquois Indians—was the great gift to mankind.
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