Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historical accounts suggest that the garment hung down several feet from his shoulders, interwoven with designs that represented ...

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 ...

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 wampum ...

The purple edges of the quahog shell provided the material for the darker beads in wampum. (Clay Wollney) The Native Americans who once seasonally inhabited the shorelines of Staten Island came here ...

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 ...

Perhaps you’ve noticed the strange new object in Windsor’s west end: A 50-foot long free-standing tapestry of dark and light coloured “beads” woven into a zig-zag aboriginal pattern. “We wanted it to ...

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 wampum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leroy Hill holds a two row wampum belt. (Candace Maracle/CBC - image credit) The One Bowl wampum is the first known pre-contact ...