On the right column, the Ever-Growing Tree Wampum Belt represents peace from “the ground all the way up to the sky world,” Lazore said.

There were three wampum belts – the belts of shellfish beads that are the traditional way Native Americans of the eastern woodlands cultures denoted treaties and other agreements among peoples.

Jim Santelli said Wampum Borough residents need to honor their resident hall of famer and are planning several things to do so, including a bus trip to Cooperstown, New York. Wampum’s Richard ...

Creating wampum belts was on my bucket list.” Over the years, Marden has beaded quite a few. One three-piece set is striking in its five-foot size and meaningful imagery.

Generations of Native artistry on display in Martha's Vineyard and Dartmouth, Massachusetts Native artists bridge past and present through creations of a Wampum belt and quahog shell jewelry ...

Lainey has been researching wampum belts for over 20 years, and he first wrote about the Two-Dog Wampum Belt around 2007, he said, even producing a chapter on the belt.

Concordia’s First Peoples Studies program offered a course this winter highlighting the cultural heritage of wampum belts and their significance in modern society. Under the guidance of Nicolas Renaud ...

The One Bowl wampum is the first known pre-contact treaty agreement in North America and is referred to in many land acknowledgements in Ontario. Wampum belts are woven from tubular beads made of ...

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 ...

Wampum belts contain the most precious words, values and experiences of Haudenosaunee people An Akwesasne artist making contemporary wampum belts says he thinks of strands of purple and white ...

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 ...