THE GOOD MIND

The Onondaga Nation in central New York State is the Central Fire of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy).  This sovereign indigenous government, which follows the Great Law of Peace, inspired American democracy.  The Onondagas advocate for the environment and share prophecies about climate change, while engaged in a battle with the state over ancestral lands stolen in defiance of a treaty with George Washington.

 

The Good Mind is the Onondaga and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) philosophy and way of life.  When the Peacemaker brought his message 1,000 years ago to the shores of sacred Onondaga Lake, he united warring peoples with a system of governance based on using the Good Mind to make decisions not only for the present, but for the next seven generations.