While the white male "founding fathers" are credited with the creation of the United States Constitution, historical study makes clear that the Constitution actually originated from Eastern American Indian tribes.
The U.S. Constitution was taken almost verbatim from the Five Nations Constitution, in existence for hundreds of years prior to the arrival of Europeans. In the Colonial and Pre-Colonial Days, there existed no true form of democratic government anywhere in Europe, yet the documents of a number of Eastern tribes, as well as a number of tribes throughout the United States, exemplify a broad democratic tradition and the beliefs and actions of true democracy.
However, rather than acknowledging the influence of the Iroquois tribe and the other Five Nations tribes, the founding fathers of our country, as well as a number of other historical figures, have attempted to claim that the development of the Constitution was both original ideas and ideas influenced by European societies.
However, the Five Nations Constitution contains each of the fundamental tenets of democracy that later appeared in the United States Constitution, with the exception of the rights of women. Even though the U.S. Constitution was taken from the Five Nations Constitution, the tenets contained within have not been fully adhered to in both historical and contemporary times.
For example, in the United States, the fundamental rights of men have historically only referred to those people the United States deems human in that time period. In effect, the fact that the true history of the Constitution is rarely mentioned or considered is another example of the profound ethnocentrism prevalent within the United States, where the only "true" history in the United States is that of white men.
The role of minority groups in this country's founding have been largely overlooked or purposefully hidden in order to both accept credit for accomplishments of other groups and simultaneously ignore atrocities perpetuated against other groups, including the genocide of indigenous populations, the enslavement of African descendants, the internment of Japanese Americans, the forced labor of Chinese Americans who were forced to return home upon the completion of railroads, and most offensive of all, the denial of our history and our accomplishments.
To ignore everything non-whites have contributed to the United States is to essentially negate our history and perpetuate a cycle wherein the United States education system in effect teaches lies and half-truths to the children of our country, who make up the future leaders.
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