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 ...

Gdo-Sastamoo Kii Mi means "helping you to understand" in the Ojibwe language. ... from top to bottom, is: Dish with One Spoon belt, 24 Nations belt, Two Row wampum belt, Treaty of Niagara ...

Essays on Hodinöhsö:ni’ Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery By Penelope Myrtle Kelsey Syracuse University Press Since the 14th century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and ...

Tadodaho Sidney Hill stands on the shore of Onondaga Lake holding a replica of the Two Row Wampum Belt, which tribal leaders from the Haudenosaunee nations (also known as the Iroquois) point to as ...

The Two Row wampum belt on display replicates one that was presented by the Unkechaug Indian Nation of Long Island to British governors during the 1670s, the museum said.

Wampum is a fascinating subject: the Shinnecock people fashioned local shells into beads that became the medium of currency among northeastern native peoples, and even were used as a medium of ...

Fascinating. Michael Paulson's blog, Articles of Faith, has this story of a Vermont museum featuring a display of "Wampum belts of faith," with a Jesuit connection: "Two 17th century beaded wampum ...

The exhibition, called WAMPUM/OTGOÄ, runs at Ganondagan until Sept. 16, after which it will go to the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal and then back to its home, the Musée du Quai Branly in ...

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 ...

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 ...