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Still, there are parallels, and the case is strong that Benjamin Franklin was personally moved by the Iroquois example.

Entire Great Law of the Iroquois spans of time (seven generations) pass without these types of changes.

The slaves of early 17th century Iroquois were not dehumanized property like colonial era natives and Africans.

It's derived from Iroquois Nation words and used by French settlers to refer to Indigenous people.

Even the story of how the Iroquois confederacy seeded their founding fathers was messed up and cannot be fully relied upon.

For a while, Sea Shepherd's vessels sailed under the flag of the Iroquois Nation.

It was us (or the Iroquois Confederacy anyway) that hunted them to near extinction.

One of the experiences of colonialists was the Beaver Wars in which the Iroquois invaded and captured the territory of the Huron.

Research what the Iroquois did to the Huron people, what the Apache did to the Pueblos, and what the Aztecs did to everybody.

And some like the Iroquois were generally peaceful and continue to this day.

We don’t learn much in school about George Washington burning down Iroquois villages because we focus on other things.

Historical accounts of both Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin make it very clear that both looked to the Iroquois for inspiration and considered them important.

It offers pattern languages (not frameworks or methodologies) based on Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai" and the thousand year Iroquois Confederacy.

Tooker concludes, "...there is virtually no evidence that the framers borrowed from the Iroquois." She thinks the myth resulted from exaggerations and misunderstandings of a claim made by the Iroquois linguist and ethnographer J.

For what it is worth, when I hear "Six Nations", I think "Iroquois Confederacy".

I would suggest reading "Empire of the Summer Moon" for an example of a famous and incredibly egalitarian American construct, or just read about Iroquois political structures via Googling, for two examples.

Franklin in particular became inspired by the idea of combining the colonies into a federation after reading about the Iroquois.

It was an explanation by a Native American Indian who I think was a non-Iroquois as this was in Florida.

& Iroquois/Mohawk under Brant fled north to Canada, where the British granted them land along the Grand River valley here in Ontario.