Nov 20, 2024 · For thousands of years, Indigenous people of America’s northeast region have crafted small, cylindrical beads called wampum from purple and white whelk and clam shells. Often woven into...

Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam.

Feb 5, 2024 · On the banks of the Grand River, Cayuga Faithkeeper and Sub-chief, Leroy (Jock) Hill, holds a glass and twine replica of the Hiawatha Belt. Wampum Belts are an integral part of Haudenosaunee culture, holding laws, treaties and values within …

Documents woven of shell beads, called wampum (otgowa), record Onondaga and Haudenosaunee history and brings to life the voice of the ancestors. Here we share the oral teachings of the wampum belts associated with the Great Law of Peace.

Wampum is a vital part of Onondaga and Haudenosaunee culture. Wampum is created from the shell of a clam. The beads are cut from the white and purple parts of the shell.

Among the Haudenosaunee (the "Six Nations," comprising the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora peoples) the Great Law of Peace (Mohawk: Kaianere’kó:wa), also known as Gayanashagowa, is the oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Oct 10, 2024 · Treaty of Canandaigua Wampum Belt, given to George Washington as a symbol of continuing friendship. In the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua these treaties were acknowledged by the United States and the United States promised to protect the greatly reduced Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga lands in future years. This promise was not fulfilled.

Apr 8, 2016 · One of the most intriguing wampum belts of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy is one known by many names: the Remembrance belt, the Defeat of the French Record belt, the Peacemaker belt, the Prophecy belt, and—to keep life simple—the Peacemaker Prophecy belt.

Wampum are beads made from various white and purple mollusk shells which were and are still used by various Native nations throughout northeastern North America for ornamental or ceremonial use. Contrary to misconceptions, wampum was not "indian money."

The Hiawatha wampum belt tells the story of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s legendary founding and Wampum’s power to heal. In this sacred story, a warrior named Hiawatha who meets a prophet called the Peacemaker and becomes his student.