Cherokee leader Wilma Pearl Mankiller reminds us that Iroquois leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations past and future when making decisions that affect their people.
Hiawatha is an important figure in the pre-colonial history (c. 1400-1450) of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of what is now southern Ontario and upstate New York. In the Iroquois tradition Hiawatha, an Onondaga tribe born among the Mohawks, to form an alliance between 1570 and 1600. He is best known for uniting the five nations of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk into a political coalition. It is attributed to Decanawida (Peacemaker), who is said to have to promote authority, justice and great law.
Iroquois leaders were usually elected by the women of the tribe, and these leaders represented the tribes at tribal confederation meetings.
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