Indian Tribe of Southampton County presented to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, this past spring, the 312th Spotswood Treaty ...

Wampum jewelry is prized for its beauty, and cultural artisans utilize new skills and technology to imbue each shell and bead with story and culture. What's truly wonderful is that after the ...

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 ...

One of eight fellows for 2023, James-Perry will focus on creating large wampum jewelry pieces, which are crafted from quahog shells. While many wampum artists use machinery to create pieces ...

Martin E. Sullivan, the former director of the State Museum who presided over the landmark return of a dozen wampum belts to the Onondaga Nation 25 years ago, died last week at his home in ...

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 ...