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ONLINE: Turtle Island Confederacies: Relationships and Balance Feb 11, 2021 6:00 PM Stephanie Stevens Rebecca Webster is an assistant professor in the American Indian Studies Department, University of Minnesota Duluth. Been thinking about democracy lately? Same. As the received narrative about the United States and the founding fathers is being revised in many quarters these days, it might be informative to understand that white Europeans did not hatch democracy on this continent. Long before, the Three Fires Confederacy of the Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy were participatory democracies. The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Roots of Democracy Series tackles this topic with a lecture from Rebecca Webster, Margaret Ann Noodin and Richard Monette. This online discussion and Q&A, via Zoom, is open to the public with advance registration. ....
ONLINE: Turtle Island Confederacies: Relationships and Balance Feb 11, 2021 6:00 PM Stephanie Stevens Rebecca Webster is an assistant professor in the American Indian Studies Department, University of Minnesota Duluth. Been thinking about democracy lately? Same. As the received narrative about the United States and the founding fathers is being revised in many quarters these days, it might be informative to understand that white Europeans did not hatch democracy on this continent. Long before, the Three Fires Confederacy of the Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy were participatory democracies. The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters Roots of Democracy Series tackles this topic with a lecture from Rebecca Webster, Margaret Ann Noodin and Richard Monette. This online discussion and Q&A, via Zoom, is open to the public with advance registration. ....