Native Americans and the Native American Critique

The davids argue that non western, non european civilizations are consistently stripped of political self consciousness. This would have come as a great surprise to kandioronk the seventeenth century wendat philosopher statesman. Like many north american peoples of his time, kandiron's wendat nation saw their society as a confederation created by conscious agreement. But somehow the self consciously political nature of new france was replaced by either the idealized fantasies of rousseau or the idealized barbarism of hobbs. And europe intellectuals in turn, co opted their criticisms, using fictional nativeAmericans as mouthpieces,. while the originals were forgotten to mainstream history