i think about the hundreds ofcurrently existing tribal governments, those things are reminders that the colonizers also tried to destroy indigenous political systems. The point is not to romanticize indigenous people or to say that they were some sort of perfectly and magically enlightened people. Not all had that system of leadership by women elders, or consensus base decision makingin in that same way as many did. But the point is to say that indigenous folk had working systems for governing themselves that they developed over millennia.