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 ...

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.

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

James-Perry is the first Wampanoag and first indigenous person from Massachusetts to receive the recognition, National Endowment for the Arts says.

WAMPUM/OTGOÄ will run at Ganondagan until Sept. 16, after which it will go to Montreal and then back to France. The Musée du Quai Branly has already begun to explore similar relationships with ...

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 ...