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The Iroquois Grand Council It is the assembly of the fifty chiefs of the Confederacy that represent all of the clans of all of the member nations.

In the past, the Grand Council met yearly to resolve disputes between member nations and plan mutual strategies to protect the member nations and the welfare of the people. Today, the Grand Council still meets regularly at Onondaga, which is considered the capitol of the Confederacy.

There is another Grand Council on the Canadian side at the Grand River Reserve that has been in operation from about 1784, when nearly half of the Haudenosaunee left their homelands to live in Canada after the Revolutionary War.

Both councils agree that the central fire and the position of Tododaho rests within the Onondaga Nation, located near Syracuse, NY.