The Original Tree
Diamond Member
You are a dumb ass. Native Americans did not believe in Individual Rights. They practiced Sex Slavery, Blood Feuds, and raped, murdered and pillaged other tribes for their tribal lands. Groups in South America and in North America practiced Human Sacrifice. The People of Hawaii were still sacrificing virgins to their pagan volcano God when Captain Cook landed there.Wrong.
If not for the Native Americans, then the Founders would have reflected the exact same mistakes as Europe.
The colonists were NOT more ethical, intelligent, etc.
Most actually came to the New World out of "get rich quick" schemes.
The ONLY factor that changes them and made the colonies different than Europe was the native belief in individual rights and their rejection of imposed heirarchies.
How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped U.S. Democracy
Season 2 of Native America is a groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Indian Country. Building on the success of the first season, this four-part Native…www.pbs.org
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uch has been said about the inspiration of the ancient Iroquois “Great League of Peace” in planting the seeds that led to the formation of the United States of America and its representative democracy.
The Iroquois Confederacy, founded by the Great Peacemaker in 11421, is the oldest living participatory democracy on earth2. In 1988, the U.S. Senate paid tribute with a resolution3 that said, "The confederation of the original 13 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."
The peoples of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Six Nations, refer to themselves as the Haudenosaunee, (pronounced "hoo-dee-noh-SHAW-nee"). It means “peoples of the longhouse,” and refers to their lengthy bark-covered longhouses that housed many families. Theirs was a sophisticated and thriving society of well over 5,000 people when the first European explorers encountered them in the early seventeenth century.
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May I remind you that the rebel snake flag was an Iroquois flag originally, that the colonists just copied?
The Iroquois were about the only large democratic republic in all history.
It is the only real basis for the US.
These weren't Noble Savages. They were Pagan Savages.
On top of that, Native Americans did not live in Harmony with Nature. They decimated the Mega Fauna they came across early in their IMMIGRATION from ASIA across the Bering Straits and Pacific Ocean in other areas.
Want to know where the Saber Tooth Tiger, Wooley Mammoth, Giant Sloth, Dire Wolf, Cave Bear, Wooly Rhinoceros went?
In some Native American's Stomach.
That's where.
The only thing I agree with Native Americans on is Eating Meat and lots of it. I'm hungry for a Buffalo Burger right now.