CH-0005 · RESEARCH DRAFT

Great Law of Peace and Haudenosaunee confederation

Time immemorial · founding year unresolved · Dating precision: disputed

The Great Law of Peace is the ancient constitution of the Five Nations Confederacy. The precise founding date is unknown.

Not publication-ready. The Confederacy’s own account says the exact joining date is unknown. Proposed dates need separate source-specific entries.

Historical place

Northeastern North America

Present-day context

Northeastern North America — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction

Peoples named in this record

Haudenosaunee

Review state

date uncertain — source-supported draft is not independent verification

Catalogue updated

2026-10-11

French text

Translation pending; English research text shown.

Map context

No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.

No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.

Source evidence

• Great Law of Peace

  Dictionary of Canadian Biography · institutional history · Review: search excerpt

  Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.

  Institutional interpretation is not automatically independent corroboration. Consult nation-authored histories and underlying records before editorial approval.

• Who We Are

  Haudenosaunee Confederacy · · Review: page opened

  Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-12. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.