[kawaii]

http://www.iroquoisdemocracy.pdx.edu/html/greatlaw.html

[Vinny]

Thanks.

From reading his all I can gather is that they set up rules to govern their Iroquois confederacy.

This is hardly novel and breath-taking since every community does this.

Did the revisionists read this, b/c I can’t find too much information, if any, that would convince me that our system of gov’t derived from the Iroquois.

Our system of government under the Articles of Confederation could plausibly reflect Iroquois influence, even though I think the idea of little republics was of Hebraic-Greek influence.

But Constitutional gov’t - that’s a stretch I think.

[Publius6961]

I would actually waste my time following that link, if you can assure me that the original indian manuscripts documenting the idea exist.

Psychologically suspect Europeans who filtered myth and oral history into a "noble savage" fantasy, doesn't quite do it for me.

Too many whites who love recreational drugs have forged far too many fantasies to take this stuff seriously.