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The colonial sources of the 17th-18th centuries describe some north-Amerindian societies by using the western framework of federalism. The Iroquois League, notably, was frequently depicted under the features of a "Federative Republic", and some researchers go as far as to make of it one of the sources of inspiration for the United States constitution. The Amerindian confederacies were nonetheless similar to the European confederacies: Vast “endogamic” entities sometimes symbolized by the metaphors of the "circle" or the "cabin", they constituted spaces of alliance and internal peace intended to make the war better on the outside, and were characterized by the absence of State and common foreign policy. |
