Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper Oren Lyons shows the images on the 220-year-old wampum belt commissioned by George Washington to mark the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua between the United States and the ...

Kelsey shows how contemporary Iroquois intellectuals and artists adapt and reconsider these traditional belts in new and innovative ways. "Reading the Wampum" conveys the vitality and continuance of ...

Campaign organizers are planning a series of events around New York state this year to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the 1613 treaty between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Dutch.

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 ...

The Hiawatha wampum belt tells the story of the Haudenosaunee’s legendary founding and wampum’s power to heal. It tells of a warrior named Hiawatha who meets a prophet known as the Peacemaker.

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 ...

Barry Lee, a Munsee Indian, and Barbara Christy, a Delaware Indian, will display replicas of two wampum belts as part of a spiritual service at 10 a.m. Sunday at Unitarian Universalist Church of ...

The recently commissioned Two Row wampum belt, with the tools used to make it, that has been put on display at the New-York Historical Society. Credit: Wampum Magic/Lydia Chavez.