One of the Ancient Wonders mentioned in the book, "Seven Wonders of Ancient North America" is not a place or a thing, but an idea. The idea of living peacefully. The Native American groups of the northern New York area, spilling into Canada, lived a live of violence, fighting one group against another, which included cannibalism. Hiawatha and the Peacemaker saw a different way. Dreams played an important part. The negotiated and brought five tribes together into a confederacy. Originally five tribes joined the confederacy. They were Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk. They were joined later by a sixth, Tuscarora. They were the confederacy of the long house. The confederacy originally formed in the 1100s, and it is still going today, making it the longest democratic system in the world. Ideas from the confederacy were used in shaping the Constitution.
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