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The Great Tree Of Peace / The White Pine Tree
The white pine tree was the tree chosen by the Peacemaker as a symbol of the unity of the nations of the Haudenosauee confederacy. Its needles which always grow in clusters of five are symbolic of the uniting of nations. The white pine also has broad branches that can provide shelter and it is beneath the tree that the Peacemaker asked the Chiefs to join him.