INDIGST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Clan Mother, Wampum, Covenant Chain

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1A03
• Professor: Vanessa Watts

Document Summary

Extended family would all live with eachother. Brought to the - at the time - 5 nations (seneca, cayuga, onondaga, mohawk, Time of war, people had abandoned ceremonies. 1142 a new law came to the people. Delivered by two people, hiawatha and the peacemaker. Thought of as longest running and oldest democracy in the work (continues today) Two political bodies speaking for one community. Haudenosaunee confederacy operates under the chief maintains to this day (under the great law of peace) Band council: elected system government (federal government recognizes) Specific rules about how the great law functions. There are 50 chiefs representing the five nations. The tuscarora joined the confederacy in the 1700s and sit with the younger. Brothers - they do not have representation amongst the 50 chiefs. They have a say within the proceedings but do not have a chief title within their nation. Chiefs would meet at onondaga in new york state.