How much native american influence you think america had as a democracy and culture?

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To me it seems kind of obvious, but i havent digged into it alot.

The things that triggers questions in my mind about just how much influence the native american way of living had on new arrivals in North America.

- Gender equality, 200 years in advance:

I dont know how it is in the US, but here in Canada one of the first legitimization of women being legally allowed to walk around bare breasted is in the 2000s.

Iroquois, for example, were a matriarchal society. Where the leader of the tribe was a woman. Western women fought for the right to vote in the 20th century, only getting it in the 1940s in Quebec where i live.

- The way some native american tribes resolved problems:

all sitting around and discussing things, where everyone is allowed to participate makes me think of parliaments and congress.

- The sexual freedom of women who could fuck one guy, decide it wouldnt work and pick another husband, which would be unthinkable in women-oppressed Europe and western culture.

Im forgetting stuff, but just to start things off. I think its deplorable that native americans often get this shit rap about them just living in shitholes and contributed nothing to civilization. Back then they wouldnt even call them civilized.

Fact is, when spaniards entered tenochtitlan (the space where modern-day Mexico city lies) they had never seen anything like it. 100k population city on a network of island blocks where farming produced all kinds of weird fruits and vegetables.