Wikipedia's article on the Great Law of Peace, the oral constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on the Great Law of Peace, the oral constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, consulted 2026-08-11, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a general overview rather than a substitute for a dedicated Haudenosaunee-authored account. NotesWikipedia's article on the Great Law of Peace, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here narrowly for its account of the historians' debate over the Great Law's influence on the framers of the United States Constitution, Donald Grinde's reading and the 1988 congressional resolution against Elisabeth Tooker's, Jack Rakove's and Charles C. Mann's counter-readings, and its note that no English translation of the Great Law existed until the nineteenth century. Nothing about the wampum record's content or the Wampum Keeper's office is drawn from or written against this source; the entity itself already carries a live restricted-tradition fact on that record and this citation touches none of it.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace
Source Typereference
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