Haudenosaunee Indigenous Principles of Democracy

Abstract

The present work succinctly exposes the scholarly and public consensus that today recognizes the originality and relevance of the system of coexistence and co-government that a conglomerate of indigenous nations consolidated in the contour of the great lakes in North America, centuries before the stumble of Columbus. with continental lands. The article examines the peculiar influence that the model of the <Iroquois League> came to exert on the eager minds that, after the triumph of the 13 colonies over the British empire in 1776, would need to imagine a new concept of sociopolitical integration.