answers - Iroquois constitution

1a. Dekanawidah and the five nation confederate lords plant and name the Tree of the Great Peace.
2a. Dekanawidah is speaking to the confederacy and Adodaroh is the Chief confederate lord of onondaga on whose land the council was lit
3a. A candidate shows his pledge to the council by furnishing "four strings of shells (or wampum) one span in length bound together at one end.": the object might symbolize the four nations, tight together in one knot which would represent the fifth nation, the one that the candidate is applying for.
4a. It incorporates all the surrounding nature when the candidate's speech comes to the acknowledgments since the nature was viewed  evenly as origin of life.
5a. I think that the Iroquois Constitution is one of the greatest documents ever made: everything is set in order to guarantee people's well being and peace among the nations. For instance,  the constitution says :" in all your official acts, self-interest shall be cast into oblivion". It means that all the members of the confederation must behave in their people's interest. A representative should be a datum point for its people, being always calm so that people can feel safe even listening to their representative talking. ("with endless patience you
shall carry out your duty and your firmness shall be tempered with tenderness for your people.") . 

1.b The meeting's purpose is to "plant the Tree of the Great Peace" but also to establish the rules linked to the candidates' behavior and to officially gather Five Nations' chiefs. The oratory skills were fundamental since oral was the only way to communicate, and being a good speaker implied not being too emotional for example, thing that would have changed people's opinion and being calm also when the situation would become stretched.
2b. The assembled lords are not related to one other, but they feel as a family since they all share the same values, that's why Dekanawidah feels related to everyone.
3b. A candidate should be proof against anger, offensive reactions and criticism.  His heart should be filled with peace and hood will and his mind filled  with a yearning for the welfare of the people of the confederacy. He should carry out his duty and his firmness should be tempered with tenderness for his people. Neither angry or fury should find lodgment in his mind and all his words and action should be marked with calm deliberation (that's why a candidate should be a good orator, 1b), his self-interest should be cast into oblivion.
4b. The native Americans regarded Nature as Mother Nature, something from everything came. They viewed every event, every object as a gift from Mother Nature, that's why they honored so much the environment around them.
5b. The Iroquois Constitution seems to me a reasonable agreement. A lot of politicians now don't care very much about their people, that is especially way I would include the last part of the Constitution's extract (duties of a candidate). I would regulate by law also candidate's family behavior, and I would of course not consider the pledges Iroquois asked for, but I would make candidates swear.