Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal

Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on early America, particularly how various Native American, European and African women and men interacted from the 16th through early 19th centuries.

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A 1724 French engraving depicts a gathering of the Iroquois Confederacy in North America. (Wikimedia Commons)

Before the American Revolution, Native nations guarded their societies against tyranny

In the history of North America, there were others who had also seen the dangers of certain types of government and had designed their own checks and balances to guard against tyranny: the Native Americans.

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