The Law of the Land

Why did the participants in the Boston Tea Party dress themselves as Indians?

The answer to this question has been hidden away by the history books, and what does remain has been heisted by for-profit shamans and twisted into wispy nothings for gatherings of utopians waiting for the return of the Star People from outerspace to reappear in Area 51 to save them from their stupidity.

There is a great law of the land, which we call the U.S. Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and before these, the Declaration of Independence. And before these documents was The Great Law of Peace of the Longhouse People. It is this constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy that unleashed the spirit of freedom and independence amongst the colonists, and this is why those of the Boston Tea Party chose to identify with their Iroquois brethren. This is the law of the land, not of a mystical Star People, but given by a man named Tekanawita and his follower Hiawatha.

From the 1740's on, the Iroquois had encouraged the colonists to unite into a confederacy like their own and declare independence from Britain.

Finally, in 1776, the Continental Congress planned to meet in Philadelphia. The Continental Congress sent an invitation, signed by John Hancock, to the Iroquois leaders, requesting that they would be present at the Congress.

In June of 1776 there were 21 Iroquois leaders camped outside of the State House in Philadelphia. They were there as "brothers" of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. They oversaw the debates, approving them, and expressed their desire to be "as one people, and have but one heart" with the colonists.

What was this Great Law of Peace that so inspired the signers of the Declaration of Independence? And why is it that when we speak of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution we speak of them as new creations, as revolutionary, or based upon new enlightenment thought, but never as laws that were written upon this land even before the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock? The Great Law of Peace is irrefutable, and all that have forgotten it or ignored it have fallen into weakened and scattered states.

The Great Law of Peace was given to those that accepted it, the nations of the Iroquois, by Tekanawita who was sent by The Great Creator to save the miserable people from themselves and the blood they were spilling upon the earth. This is not a New Age history, but one that makes one question what we think we know about this earth and how God works in it.

When one knows the history of this land and of Tekanawita, it seems that we are idolizing our "Founding Fathers," giving them credit for a documents that predate them, and were originally handed down by The Great Creator and protected by the Iroquois nations. This Constitution, like the Ten Commandments was handed down by God via an intermediary and if we toss it out or break its laws we will have no peace and be separated from each other as the Iroquois eventually were.

And so, I conclude here with high hopes of proceeding on to the the amazing history of Tekanawita, perhaps The Founding Father of this nation --- and of all nations that follow shepherds and fishermen.