It has been understood that the Haudenosaunee (League of the Iroquois) Long House traditions played an important role in the formative understandings of the democratic traditions of the United States within the Republic. Less known is that in the lands of the Paiute, across four states in the West, such traditions of sometimes remote self governing bodies, united by common beliefs, values, and family structures, formed a democratic nation before and within a nation, existing today as a diaspora seeking its originative principles and relationships in a modern-day Reconstruction.