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Great Law of Peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (122 words) |
 | Gayanashagowa or the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois (or Haudenosaunee) Six Nations is the oral constitution that created the Iroquois Confederacy. |
| The law was developed by a Huron man known as The Great Peacemaker and his spokesman Hiawatha. |
| The Gayanashagowa is said to have provided some inspiration for the United States Constitution. |
| DECOLONIZING INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE: OBSERVATIONS ON RESTORING GREATER (8606 words) |
| The Gayanashagowa was as much a philosophy as it was law and its sophisticated governing apparatus affected not just the political, but also the social and cultural life of all Haudenosaunee people. |
| As a result, an analysis of the Gayanashagowa and its impact on Haudenosaunee life should be particularly helpful in understanding Seneca political philosophy, the way in which Senecas governed for hundreds of years prior to the revolution in 1848, and the establishment of the Seneca constitutional republic. |
| Foremost, the Gayanashagowa was a tool of government and frequently has been referred to as the Haudenosaunee Constitution. |
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