Indigenous Histories

Where License Reigns With All Impunity

An Anarchist Study of the Rotinonshón:ni Polity

The traditional society of the Rotinonshón:ni (Iroquois), "The People of the Longhouse," was a densely settled, matrilineal, communal, and extensively horticultural society. The Rotinonshón:ni formed a confederacy of five nations. Generations before historical contact with Europeans, these nations united through the Kaianere'kó:wa into the same polity and ended blood feuding without economic exploitation, stratification, or the formation of a centralized state.

Contents:
* Introduction
* How Peace Came to the Rotinonshón:ni
* "One Bowl": The Communal Economy of the Rotinonshón:ni
* "We are left to answer for our women"
* The Beaver Wars, which were Not Only about the Fur Trade
* Kaianere'kó:wa as Constitution of a Stateless Polity?
* Anarcho-Indigenism

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