BRATTLEBORO — It all starts by finding the right quahog shell. That's what Perley Murray, owner of Walks with Wolves Creations on Elliot Street, says about the process of creating wampum jewelry.

Over 200 Native and non-Native paddlers launch onto the Hudson River to travel from Albany, NY to the United Nations in New York City to honor and renew the Two Row Wampum treaty agreed upon in 1613.

PHOTOS: Fire engulfs house off of NW Skyline Blvd 4 hours ago. Gallery. Rally ... wampum before adopting the legal paper currency and coins of the latter 1800’s.

The wampum belt was taken as a spoil of war after the death of Wampanoag leader Metacom, also known as King Philip. Its whereabouts remain a mystery.

WAMPUM – When the fire siren blasts at 1 p.m. Dec. 3, two young men dressed as American Indians carrying the banner "Wampum Area Christmas Parade" will herald the start of the 50th annual parade ...

Wampum was the widely accepted and preferred method of payment between Native American tribes most notably Iroquois, Narragansett, and Hiawatha for years prior to the settler's arrival.

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 ...

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.

Times Union staff photo by Cindy Schultz -- Charles Gehring, New Netherland Project director and translator, on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008, at the New York State Museum in Albany, N.Y. (WITH ...