Cahoon Museum of American Art opens its season with wampum exhibit featuring the recreated belt lost after the death of Metacom (King Philip) ...

Wampum belts can be used as a form of currency, but they are primarily used as a means to record significant oral narratives for future generations.In "Reading the Wampum," Kelsey provides the first ...

The wampum exhibit at Ganondagan's Seneca Art and Cultural Center is the product of an uncommon intercultural museum relationship.

Curators hope the Long Island tribe's belt, commissioned by the New-York Historical Society, will show the importance of indigenous history in the region and combat misconceptions about the belt's ...

An Akwesasne artist making contemporary wampum belts says he thinks of strands of purple and white wampum beads as Morse code.The tubular beads made from quahog shells were used ornamentally or ...

Schools across Ontario marked the start of province's first Treaties Recognition Week, with speakers telling students that treaties are living documents that need to be honoured.

Named for the short, tubular shell beads called “wampum,” these belts are sacred to the indigenous people, as they are a record of their agreements made with non-Native nations.

At the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal, glass cases house precious wampum belts in a new exhibit that may be the biggest of its kind in the world.

Schools across Ontario marked the start of province's first Treaties Recognition Week on Monday, with speakers telling students that treaties with Indigenous peoples are living documents that need to ...