A Seventh Generation deliberation rule would have voided thousands of U.S. government decisions.

Evidence

A similar teaching of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy recognizes the importance of future generations. “In each deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation from now,” they say; that is, undertake conservative thinking, and use careful deliberation. Such consideration would have preempted thousands of decisions made by the U.S. government. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 978

Categorization

• SEED: Using the Haudenosaunee seventh-generation rule as an audit lens on specific US decisions is a concrete essay angle.
• XREF: The Haudenosaunee Confedeacy already introduced in ch2; Seventh Generation principle ties to their living-government teaching. — connects to: Industrial production must shift from a linear to a cyclical system to survive. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 974; Anishinaabeg Seventh Fire prophecy frames the present as a branching time of two roads. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 975; Relational and intergenerational time is central to Indigenous worldviews. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 44