The Real Founders Of Democracy In North America? It Wasn’t The USA

Long before the United States was founded, five Native American nations created one of the world’s oldest participatory democracies.

Led by Hiawatha and a prophet known as The Peacemaker, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (also known as the Iroquois) united the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca under the Great Law of Peace.

They ended centuries of brutal war, built a council system based on consensus, and gave political power to clan mothers, who chose and removed leaders.
Their symbols of peace — the white pine, the eagle, and the bundle of five arrows — would later inspire the United States Great Seal.

Even Benjamin Franklin studied their system, and their values influenced parts of the U.S. Constitution.
Their government still exists today — a true democracy, created centuries before the USA.

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