Jack of Harts

Twilight Season Four spent an entire episode working with the Iroquois tribal police in their hunt for the terrorists. Twilight and her gang visited the most amazing casinos and the most backward of villages on their tour of the reservations. They helped the police run down leads, and the other AIs hacked any computer system they could find. The climax came with discovery of a particularly violent criminal that had been plaguing the Iroquois. The fight played out under an Iroquois war chant that ended when they discovered a lead to Indianapolis. The episode then faded to black on an ancient Iroquois victory dance and the credits rolled over the sound of chanting Indians. It was voted one of the top ten hauntingly beautiful scenes of the entire series.

Back before the Second Great Depression the Indian tribes were split up between many small reservations all over the country. They had little physical power but a procession of Indian-owned casinos over the previous three quarters of a century had many of the tribes impressively wealthy and that bought them political power. When the United States government and many State governments fell to the depression, many Indian tribes took the opportunity to declare independence. The producers of Twilight worked with the local Iroquois chiefs of then New York State to show America how their new system was working. They also showed a very interesting political process where most of the western New York counties were effectively merging with the Iroquois to protect their own interests better than the State could. That was the beginning of what we now recognize as the Iroquois Nation.