The Micmacs and The Iroquois

The chiefs were obligated to take the matters at hand to the members before they could make any vital decision . The Iroquois Confederacy was democratic in nature as it ensured autonomy and freedom of expression . It was a government of the people and for the people

New comers or people who visited the Confederacy respected them and honored them as they would honor other independent nations . Business men respected the Confederacy too . History has it that the Confederacy attracted much admiration that some of its ideas were used in the writing

of the US constitution . This viewpoint is however surrounded by much opposition or criticisms on the basis that it holds no water and is just a myth . The Iroquois people lived in long houses and up to date they live in areas known as reserves in New York , Wins cousin and Oklahoma in the USA . The federal government has allocated or rather set aside some land for they to inhibit . Other Iroquois people live in Canada in the Ontario and Quebec areas

Today , the Iroquois people live like independent nations and their Confederacy is so powerful that it can be equated with the governments of US and Canada . According to David Ute Lischke in Walking a Tightrope Aboriginal People and Their Representations this is in contrast with the Micmacs for instance in the Newfound land who became politically organized as late as the early 70s and demanded for their recognition under the Indian Act

Although modernization has changed so many aspects of life as was known when the confederacy was being formed very little seems to change regarding their constitution . The Iroquois people have embraced education with some becoming professors , lawyers as well politicians but their continued fight to have the Confederacy stay intact seems to perpetuate . They remain...