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A purple and white flag representing the world’s oldest democracy, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, flies above a Mohawk flag at a Native American gathering. Giordanno Brumas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Before the American Revolution, Native nations guarded their societies against tyranny

Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Native American communities were elaborate consensus democracies, many of which had survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power.
Our social lives are complicated and interdependent — social bubbles and physical distancing are difficult to sustain. (Shutterstock)

Social bubbles always burst — from COVID‑19 to the past 10,000 years

Justin Jennings, University of Toronto

Our lives consist of a complex and dense web of interactions that ultimately make physical and social distancing attempts impossible. And this has always been the case in human society.
For centuries, indigenous history has been largely told through a European lens. John White, circa 1585-1593, © The Trustees of the British Museum

Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous history – but we’re using new techniques to get it right

Sturt Manning, Cornell University

Modern dating techniques are providing new time frames for indigenous settlements in Northeast North America, free from the Eurocentric bias that previously led to incorrect assumptions.

Related Topics

  1. Archaeology
  2. Cherokee Nation
  3. COVID-19
  4. Indigenous history
  5. Little Ice Age
  6. North America
  7. Ontario
  8. Revolution
  9. Toronto
  10. Trading routes

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