Iroquois
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Iroquois is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 10, 2022 and July 15, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “not all Native American states valued the reasonable debate of the Iroquois”; “Iroquois of North America do the same thing”. It most often appears alongside Hobbes, Kenya, Montagnais-Naskapi.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 10, 2022
- Last seen: July 15, 2025
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Related Pages
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- Hobbes (2 shared issues)
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- Kenya (2 shared issues)
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- Montagnais-Naskapi (2 shared issues)
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- North America (2 shared issues)
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- Rousseau (2 shared issues)
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- 50,000 BC (1 shared issues)
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- Aboriginal (1 shared issues)
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- Aboriginal Australia (1 shared issues)
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- Aboriginal society (1 shared issues)
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- Aborigine (1 shared issues)
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- Aborigines (1 shared issues)
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- Aborigines of Australia (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
at the time engaged in a complex geopolitical game, trying to play the English, French, and Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee off against each other. . . with the long-term goal of creating a comprehensive indigenous alliance to hold off the settler advance. . . Everyone who met him, friend or foe, admitted he was a truly remarkable individual: a courageous warrior, brilliant orator, and unusually skillful politician.
The conversational nature of the Wendat government led to most Jesuits describing French-speaking Native Americans as highly eloquent, as, at least among those who spoke Iroquoian languages, open conversation and debate were how tribe decisions got made, a process that rewarded the more eloquent and convincing of its members (although not all Native American states valued the reasonable debate of the Iroquois).
This system might seem pointlessly complex, an exercise in building castles in the air. But in the late 19th century, anthropologists from distant lands compared notes and noticed that the Iroquois of North America do the same thing, as do other scattered groups across several continents. So there must be some underlying logic. What is it?