Hatchet Whiskey is a whiskey with which to make peace.
This libation was designed to be shared with someone to “bury the hatchet.” Bury the hatchet is a phrase that came from the history from the Iroquois people. In 1776, the Continental Congress appointed George Morgan the first Indian agent to promote peace with Indian nations. Congressional President John Hancock told Morgan to follow the custom of the Iroquois to invite Indians to the first U.S.-Indian Peace Treaty. The historic Washington Covenant belt was given to the chiefs and clan mothers at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1784 as a promise of peace. As in the Peacemaker legend, the war hatchet was buried beneath the Tree of Peace and prayers of peace were offered through the sacred pipe.
