"A big goal of the exhibit was the (Pequots) wanted to share the history of their people, but also reinforce the idea that Pequots are ... still here, despite everything that has happened to them." ...

The Clinton County Historical Association has been awarded the 2025 Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership Making of Nations Interpretive Theme Grant. The $9,000 award is for the creation of ...

Relations between the earliest settlers and First Nations were recorded by the Two Row Wampum Belt, originally between early Dutch settlers and the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois ...

To show the Onondaga Nation's appreciation for the Cayuga Museum's actions, Tony Gonyea, a faith-keeper, made a replica wampum belt for the museum to add to its collection.

This virtual call to arms begins with the now almost unavoidable incantation that the University of Toronto is subject to the ” ‘Dish With One Spoon’ Wampum Belt Covenant between the ...

We call it “polishing the chain of friendship”—a reference to the wampum belt George Washington had made and presented at the treaty signing.

An 1831 wampum belt that was temporarily returned to Canada for a brief appearance at a Montreal museum last year is the only example The Globe and Mail could find of an Indigenous-made item ...

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 ...

It was generally used in strings and belts, and at the great Iroquois ceremonies it was considered indispensable. Black wampum was more valuable than white.