Where Was The Iroquois Government Located In The Confederacy?
August 18, 909. That’s not a typo. It’s a confirmed date for the founding of the oldest continuous democracy. At the Cayugas’ annual picnic at their farm, Jack Rossen and Shannon Keller O”Loughlin filled me in on some good news, already known to some of the Cayugas, Onondagas and others. Jack Rossen, an archaeologist, has been excavating the Levanna site, some two miles from the SHARE farm, also on the east side of Cayuga Lake. The artifacts he found were clearly Haudenosaunee, and included ceremonial pipes with false faces on them. The site had longhouses with no palisades around, so it was from a time of peace. The carbon dating put it in the mid 900s. The Haudenosaunee have been saying for a long time that the Confederacy is over a thousand years old, and now they have the carbon-14 evidence to back them up. The Confederacy of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca was completed when the Senecas came in, the last to join. The oral tradition was that the Peacemaker and Hayon
