The Iroqouis Influence on the Constitution

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Does the Constitution apply to Native Americans? In this episode of The Massachusetts School of Law's Educational Forum Assistant Professor of law Kurt Olson interviews host and producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio's Tiokasin Ghosthorse.

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[TheNativeHistorian]

@cherokeedoll1 "The founders actutualy worte articles of concern of how the indians wer mistreating thier women!!"??? Now that is truly one of the most ignorant comments i've ever heard...I respect your passion for Liberty, but you know nothing about the history of my people...And you call yourself a "Cherokee"...Native Women were elected as Chieftess and Queens long before the Europeans ever did...When the issue of Native American sovereignty comes up the Feds spit all over it.

[mikeNM08]

@cherokeedoll1 "The founders actutualy worte articles of concern of how the indians wer mistreating thier women!!" <---<<< that is a stupid and ignorant comment...Most Natives had Women rights for thousands of years...Some societies Women voted in the leaders and owned all the land in the town or village...You shouldn't call yourself "Cherokeedoll1" because you have disgraced native people...get over yourself!!!

[mikeNM08]

American Indigenous ideas permeate the constitution. These ideas include the concept that freedom is a natural right, that Government should operated by a system of checks and balances, that the best Government is the least government, that leaders are public servants who can be impeached, and that civil and military powers are best separated.

The last three paragraphs was translated between the Iroqouis and the founding fathers during their many meetings. Andrew jackson gave credit to them.

[mikeNM08]

At the time of the founding of the United States, the Iroquois Confederacy of upstate New York represented a union of six Tribes. Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers borrowed heavily from the Iroquois “federal system” of government when they planned the union which eventually became the United States of America.

[mikeNM08]

@cherokeedoll1 Indigenous Tribal democracies operated on the belief that government authority should serve all people equally. Leaders were not seen as rulers but as advisors and speakers, who echoed the collective will of their people. The Indigenous government, which directly influenced the American Constitution, was that of the Iroquois Confederacy. .

[LJM331]

Wednesday, September 16, 1987 100th Cong. 1st Sess.133 Cong Rec S 12214

REFERENCE: Vol. 133 No. 140

TITLE: SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 76 -- TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY OF NATIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND TO REAFFIRM THE CONTINUING GOVERNMENT-TO-GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIAN TRIBES AND THE UNITED STATES

ESTABLISHED IN THE CONSTITUTION.

[LJM331]

The founding fathers did borrow ideas for the U.S Constitution…Europe had a system of upper class rule who used Government to get their way…The Colonist/13 States was divided and fighting with each other for power while being taxed and oppressed by England…After the revolutionary war, the Founding Fathers continued their studies of the Iroquois Nation and other Tribal societies and they couldn’t believe that Women was held in great status among Native People...They admired NA democracies.

[cherokeedoll1]

The same is true with respect to property rights. Early American laws were deeply influenced and shaped by medieval English laws. Accordingly, property was held by households, with the husband serving as the legal authority and representative of the family. Also, Its funny the native american man claims that women were mistreated by the founders. But this man needs to learn TRUE history. The founders actutualy worte articles of concern of how the indians wer mistreating thier women!!

[cherokeedoll1]

It's true that the Founders didn't give women a national right to vote, but it's also true that the United States was the first republican government of its kind. The whole idea of popular voting was fairly revolutionary in and of itself, and the nation was developing, experimenting & adjusting its system in that era. Also women themselves were not demanding the right to vote until a generation or two after the founding era. It seems appropriate to cut the Founders some slack in this area

[cherokeedoll1]

the man in this vid could say the sky is green and the grass is blue,,but that doesnt make it so. Besides that, this has nothing to do with the control the government and the globalist are trying to have on us today. Is that what you want ?