Well, recently, when I was in San Francisco, I interviewed Brewster Kahle, the founder of the non-profit online library, the Internet Archive, located at. But critics warn the settlement could result in Google having a monopoly of access to information and giving Google an exclusive license to profit from millions of books. Google has defended its project, saying its goal is to improve access to books and to give the public access to millions of out-of-print books. A $125 million settlement was reached last year, but it’s still awaiting court approval. In 2005, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers filed lawsuits against Google challenging the company’s right to scan copyrighted material and making it searchable online. Over the past five years, Google has partnered with some of the world’s most famous research libraries to scan over seven million books. She is the great-granddaughter of Melinda Cayuga, a Seneca matriarch who exemplified the loving strength of the clan mothers.AMY GOODMAN: The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether Google is violating antitrust laws by reaching an agreement with authors and publishers to digitizing millions of printed books and posting the contents online. Such stories include the Seneca story of The Peacemaker and the Dakota story of White Buffalo Calf Woman.įern Naomi Renville (she/her) is a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, Omaha, and Seneca-Cayuga storyteller, theatre director, and playwright.

Join storyteller Fern Renville as she shares stories both mythic and personal that reframe and highlight the history, present, and future of Indigenous female power and leadership in America.

Franklin directly cited the Law’s influence on the Constitution.īut even Franklin did not comprehend the political and spiritual power held by the clan mothers of these matriarchal societies, who were instrumental to building and maintaining a peaceful union.

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s Great Law of Peace-uniting six Nations in an alliance that predates the American Constitution by centuries-served as a powerful example to men such as Benjamin Franklin, who benefited from the political guidance of Haudenosaunee leaders. History books teach us that the Founding Fathers birthed American democracy, but do not reveal the Indigenous sources of inspiration that guided their vision.

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