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King Philip's regal wampum belt was lost. See this new homage to the beaded masterpiece.
In the 1600s, when the Wampanoag people on Cape Cod held ceremonial events, their leader, Metacom (aka King Philip), would have been a prominent stand-out, wearing an intricately fashioned wampum ...
‘Native Prospects,’ a contemporary view of the American landscape through an Indigenous lens
Native Prospects, at the Farnsworth Art Museum, infuses the American landscape tradition with Indigenous perspective ...
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350 years of searching: Wampanoag still looking for historic wampum belt
Wampum belts were used by many Indigenous nations to share stories of important events, or to keep records. The belts are woven together with small purple and white beads made from quahog shells.
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After 400 years, Indigenous people reflect on the real story of the 'first Thanksgiving'
A story of that nation's long road to recovering its sovereignty and dignity and one of its most important cultural and historic artifacts: its national wampum belt. And it's a story Indigenous ...
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Unkechaug Indian Nation wampum belt displayed at New-York Historical Society
Each wampum belt or string is unique ... also note that the belt is a product of the waters of New York. “The indigenous nations that lived in and around our city really laid the groundwork ...
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UB’s Ninth Annual Indigenous and American Studies Storytellers Conference evokes the Two Row Wampum Belt Treaty of 1613
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Among indigenous peoples across America and Canada there is outrage and a strong activist movement provoked by what they consider the destructive ongoing violations of the 400 ...
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Exhibit celebrates wampum belts, a sacred link to Native peoples’ pasts
LEWISTON – A small glass case in the Lewiston Public Library cradles centuries of history in the form of striking creamy white and deep purple beaded wampum belts. The stories ...
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Indigenous wampum belt tells a unique tale to connect youth across the province
The wampum belt is a traditional Indigenous craft and story telling device. Crafters use thousands of white and purple beads to create images which are symbolic or represent important treaties ...
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'For centuries our story has been marginalised': Native Americans reflect on the Mayflower 400 years on
The belt, which is considered “unfinished” because new stories can always be added to it, will tour the UK as part of an exhibition called Wampum: Stories from the Shells of Native America ...
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Ganondagan wampum exhibit re-establishes connection over centuries
Hundreds of years after they were given as gifts to Europeans by indigenous people of the Northern Woodlands, a collection of wampum belts, beads and artifacts are again in traditional ...
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After 400 years, Indigenous people reflect on the real story of the 'first Thanksgiving'
A story of that nation's long road to recovering its sovereignty and dignity and one of its most important cultural and historic artifacts: its national wampum belt. And it's a story Indigenous ...