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'''Gayanashagowa''' or the '''Great Law of Peace''' of the [[Iroquois]] (or Haudenosaunee) Six Nations is the oral constitution that created the [[Iroquois Confederacy]]. The law was developed by a [[Huron]] man known as [[The Great Peacemaker]] and his spokesman [[Hiawatha]].

The Iroquois Confederacy was once thought to have started in the 1500s, but more recent estimates date the Confederacy, and its constitution between [[1090]] and [[1150]] A.D. These estimates were based on the records of the Confederacy leadership and astronomical dating related to the lunar eclipse that coincided with the founding of the Confederacy (Mann, 332).

According to some researchers, history professor [[Dr. Donald A. Grinde]] in particular, the Gayanashagowa is said to have provided significant inspiration to [[Benjamin Franklin]] and [[James Madison]] in the writing of the [[United States Constitution]].

"It would be a strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such a union and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears insoluble; and yet that a like union should be impractical for ten or a dozen English colonies.: - Benjamin Franklin, "Lies My Teacher Told Me", James W. Loewen pg. 111

== References ==
Mann, Charles C. ''[[1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus]]''. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

== External links ==

* [http://sixnations.buffnet.net/Great_Law_of_Peace/ Description at the Haudenosaunee Home Page]
* [http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/iroquois.html Description at The University of Oklahoma Law Center]

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