More than 270 years ago, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy showed America’s founding fathers just what they’d been looking for – an example of a thriving democracy where distinct communities could remain sovereign yet united under one government.
Benjamin Franklin, one of the core founding fathers, immersed himself in learning about how six different Indigenous nations – the Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga and Tuscarora – had sustained the oldest continuous democracy in the world.
