This inspired America’s Founding Fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, and influenced the U.S.
Named the Iroquois Confederacy by the French, this democratic alliance created the Great Law of Peace, which promoted reason instead of force to ensure the principles of justice, health and righteousness.
They created an alliance of Iroquoian-speaking nations including the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca tribes. The Haudenosaunee Native Americans arrived in the Adirondack region of New York between 1,400 and 4,000 years ago. Semi-nomadic Indigenous people have been living in the area now known as New York for at least 13,000 years, settling in the space around Lake Champlain, the Hudson River Valley and Oneida Lake.