The Myth of Kandiaronk
Enlightment and democracy
Graeber and Wengrow make much of Kandiaronk in their book The Dawn of Everything. They wrote, “Everyone who met him, friend or foe, admitted he was a truly remarkable individual: a courageous warrior, brilliant orator and unusually skillful politician.” Anthropologist and Ontario Iroquois expert Jennifer Birch does not necessarily…
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