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Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Cohoes, New York
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Here the Peacemaker brought the Kayanerekowa, or Great Law of Peace, to the Kayaneraka/Mohawk people in the time long before settlers arrived on Turtle Island, leading to the formation of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, Confederacy, the world's oldest union of free nations.
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Cohoes, New York · United States

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