Peters said one thing that has made the search difficult, is that many people in the United Kingdom have no clue what a wampum belt is. "The project in itself was a community project for us as ...

Before European colonists arrived on North American shores, the wampum belt of Long Island’s Unkechaug Indian Nation was esteemed among the nations for its quality. Now, a recently commissioned ...

The Hiawatha wampum belt tells the story of the Haudenosaunee’s legendary founding. The Hiawatha wampum belt tells the story of the Haudenosaunee’s legendary founding and wampum’s power to heal.

The story Powless' father told him decades ago held that the agreement was enshrined years after the initial encounter with a wampum belt that includes ... and Gehring find no evidence of such ...

Since the 14th century, Eastern Woodlands tribes have used delicate purple and white shells called "wampum" to form intricately woven belts. These wampum belts depict significant moments in the lives ...

Hundreds of years after they were given as gifts to Europeans by indigenous people of the Northern Woodlands, a collection of wampum belts ... mounted — but almost no Haudenosaunee people ...

The attention paid to this written document, while ignoring the history told in the wampum belts by scholars hostile to the Haudenosaunee, is just an effort to distract your readers from the ...

It’s among the most precious wampum belts out there, but for more than a century since one man sold it – without permission from the community to which it belongs – it has been in colonial ...

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