(native singing) (native drumming) - Well, the Peace Tree planting, the Peace Tree that you see over there is, is a White Pine tree.

It always has to be a White Pine tree.

That legend is 600 years old.

And it comes from the Iroquois Confederacy in Northeastern part of the country.

And it has to do with a tree where they were doing nothing, but having wars and fighting.

And they were disagreeing on everything.

(singing, drumming) - There was a time in our history of our people, our ancestors, that there was great strife that was taking place amongst all of the peoples throughout North America, throughout all of the various places.

And so it was at that time that it was decided that we say that there was a messenger that came amongst our people who was known as the Peacemaker.

And at that time, the Peacemaker, he gathered nations together.

And so we say that at that time, the Peacemaker, he symbolized this particular kind of a tree and he gave it a name.

(speaking foreign language) meaning it is it, grows tall into the sky.

It goes Skyward because it's such a tall tree.

He also named it (speaking foreign language) the tree of long leaves.

He also mentioned that, what we say today, (speaking foreign language) today is what we refer to as the White Pine.

And at that time he said, he understood that he was going to utilize this tree to be that symbol.

Because if you look at this, these needles or these leaves on this White Pine, there's a cluster of five that are bound together.

And that symbolized the five nations that came together as a Confederacy at that time.

And today we say that this particular tree that we refer to as the tree of long leaves, the White Pine, that this tree is a symbol of what we understand to be that brings us together as one, one mind, one heart, one spirit between one another as human beings here on this Earth.

(singing, drumming)