Guswenta refers to which concept?

• A. The Covenant
• B. The Great Peace that founded the Confederacy
• C. The Treaty of Alliance
• D. The Great Law of Peace

Answer: (B)

Guswenta refers to the Great Peace that bound the Haudenosaunee nations into the Confederacy. It marks the agreement and spirit of unity that joined the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca (and later Tuscarora) into a single political alliance, established to maintain harmony and organize collective decision-making. From that peace grew the system of governance—the Great Law of Peace—that guides how the confederacy operates, but Guswenta itself is the peace that founded the union. Other terms describe related ideas (like a law code or a different kind of treaty), but Guswenta names the foundational peace that created the Confederacy.