Native American Confederacy

That original constitution of the native American Confederacy was unwritten. The ideas were represented by symbols beaded on strings of wampum. Supposedly Dekanawidah’s plan for his “Tree of Great Peace” was that Firekeepers was to watch the affairs of the Five Nations so that they may spread from “The Great White Roots and their nature” of “Peace and Strength”. But that nature of peace and strength may not have been in all the hearts of all the people of the Five Nations nor those later nations who became a part of that league.

The symbols beaded on strings of wampum may have remained the same but their true meaning can be unmoored from the authors intent until they loose their meaning to the point of becoming ineffective or even destructive.

There were few ideas found in the constitution of the Confederacy that were not already rehearsed for decades, if not centuries. It did offer some protection from French and English domination and shared some of its more noble ideals with the people migrating to America from the European continent and others.

Of the 117 sections there were numerous references to thanksgiving festivals and feasts, open councils fires readied in every village and sections confirming territorial rights of nations (s77), prohibitions of allegiance to other governments (s58), along with rules about adoption (s66). These rituals and ceremonies were all designed to bring the different tribes together be setting up social communication and even a communion of common sharing.

This Haudenosaunee Confederacy was strongly tied to the political views our forefathers who settled this land. The failures of the socialist policies of the earliest colonies and the harsh realities of the wilderness alone compelled the people to become self reliant and ruggedly independent. But the ruthless attacks of some Indians along with the unpredictable characteristics of nature itself compelled people to come together in dependable ways in order to survive.

The desire to divide people so that they loose the secret of their greatness has been the practice of the enemy from the beginning of man kind. I have been reminded that the noble George Washington wrote in a letter to Major General John Sullivan to attack Iroquois people and “lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed.” What few mention is that “Manifest Destiny” and the bloody policies it sometime brings was the practice of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy for centuries as it oppressed from time to time its own neighbors.

People cite this letter from George out of the context of the abuse by the Iroquois tribes own policies to show how abusive the Europeans were to the native Americans. Undoubtedly there were abuses but the abuse was clearly on both sides. While the Haudenosaunee allowed the people they conquered “ their own system of internal government” if any of their neighbors did not accept their vision of the “Great Peace” because of their “obstinacy “ they could “become exterminated, [and] all their rights, property and territory shall become the property of the Five Nations.”

So it is clear that their original constitution of the native American Confederacy promoted a principle of “Manifest Destiny”. Even those who were conquered would have no “ voice in the councils of the Confederacy in the body of the Lords” and be called the “Conquered”.

They also believed that any hostiles should have all their weapons taken away when they were defeated.

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