A Great Trouble Maker

24″ x 24″ x 1.5″ acrylic on canvas.

My students did a lesson about the League of Nations and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy—aka”Six Nations” (which is of course English) or “Iroquois” (also colonial).

The League of Nations (precursor to the United Nations), created in that moment of great possibilities after WWI, promised to protect the sovereignty of nations.

So, in 1923, Deskaheh (Haudenosaunee hereditary chief and speaker) travelled to the League of Nations in Geneva to appeal for protection from the illegal occupation by the Canadian government.

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