Starting Points

History and Prophecy Converge in one New York Classroom

The Haudenosaunee in Buffalo, New York. 1914

This was a Monday like any other Monday in the third grade except that tomorrow was the day parents would visit.

Every year the third graders hosted a powwow in honor of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. This group of Native American nations was the oldest living democracy and had once occupied much of the northeast in…