Whereas the original framers of the Constitution, including, most notably, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, are known to have greatly admired the concepts of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy; Whereas the confederation of the original Thirteen Colonies into one republic was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the Constitution itself
I doubt that the Indians had European calendars ...
The hardest part of the Great Law is to understand the meaning of the concept of peace. Peace is not simply the absence of war. In the Iroquoian mind, peace is a state of mind. Power, which can easily be thought of as military strength, but more appropriately, it means that one heart, one mind, one head, and one body allowed the Confederacy to remain united in the face of many enemies.
So, the indians considered themselves to be red...as in Red Skin?
“He is the founder of the Haudenosaunee, commonly called the Iroquois Confederacy upon which our US government was modeled.”
Nonsense. And the politically correct resolution by Congress in 1988, in an attempt to revise history, is still nonsense.
Modeled on the Iroquois Confederacy? Total BS. The Confederacy was a warring machine.
“Iroquois Great Peacemaker and Prophet Predicts Fall of USA to Black Serpent”
Obviously, a racist. Any statues must be spray-painted and torn down. His bones must be exhumed, burned and scattered like dust in the wind. His descendents must be located and hounded on Twitter, jobs taken, lives ruined.
Where’s the Antifa/Twitter Vindictive Crowd when you need’em?
Didn’t Deganawidah also say “ I’d walk a mile for a camel” (peace pipe) and “Where’s the beef” (buffalo).
This article has been passed around the internet since the internet was thing.
It's an example of a 'grain of truth' morphing into a narrative that has become an alleged historical fact.
'Why is this history hidden from us' people ask themselves when they read this. 'People need to know the truth about the Constitution and Democracy in America' they proclaim and share this in email and social media posts. 'Why was the Indians' contribution to America left out of the history books? Racism?'
Here's a tip. If it sounds to good to be true it isn't true.
This narrative was someones' attempt to cobble together fragments of history to construct alternative history.
"Nevertheless, the consensus among historians seems to be that there's no compelling evidence that the Founding Fathers directly imitated the Iroquois Great Law when they wrote the U.S. Constitution. As PolitiFact details, the Iroquois system had some significant differences from the political system that the former colonists created. For one, the Iroquois had hereditary office-holders, something that more resembled the English system that the Americans were rebelling against."
Yes, colonists would have been aware of the governing structure of the Natives, talked about it, wrote about it, and discussed it but that doesn't mean they were the foundation of the American republic and the Constitution.
Was the Iroquois Great Law of Peace the Source for the U.S. Constitution?
Next up:
Deganawida attacked as white supremacist.
Ollie: Use “Deganawida” in a sentence.
LaTonka: Dey sed dey gana go aw’ multiculcheral, wif dem Injins an’ us Black peepah, but deganawida den eva.
This sounds tome like the Kundalini action you find in many ancient religions. The “serpent fire†is the source of wisdom and enlightenment it has a positive negative and neutral aspect to it. It even finds parallels in the bible as the fooler (it is actually the sexual nature) when it is sublimated than you are “wise as serpents”.