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An ethnographic and historical study of how five Iroquoian tribes united under a constitutional confederacy designed to maintain peace and justice through collective authority and kinship-based governance. The account outlines matrilineal descent, the deliberate separation of civil institutions from military influence, and the founders’ aim to admit other peoples as confederates rather than subjects. It situates the confederacy within a landscape of neighboring polities, contrasts tribal regimentation with territorial state formation, and explains the league’s constitutional principles and social units using historical tradition and comparative analysis.

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Title: A constitutional league of peace in the stone age of America

The League of the Iroquois and its constitution

Author: J. N. B. Hewitt

Release date: March 22, 2023 [eBook #70345]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Smithsonian Institution, 1920

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A CONSTITUTIONAL LEAGUE OF PEACE IN THE
STONE AGE OF AMERICA

THE LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS AND ITS
CONSTITUTION
BY
J. N. B. HEWITT
Bureau of American Ethnology

FROM THE SMITHSONIAN REPORT FOR 1918, PAGES 527-545
(Publication 2572)
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1920