Introduction : why wampum? -- Money and language -- Foreign legal tender -- Translation and conversion -- Coins on paper -- What is wampum? -- Indian giving and Willie Wampum -- Money writing -- ...
Once a child of the Poospatuck reservation in Mastic, artist creates wampum art to build connections
As a child on the Poospatuck reservation in Mastic, Lydia Wallace-Chavez lived in a world shaped by the ocean and its shells. Those times of fishing, clamming and searching beaches to find shells with ...
Hundreds of years after they were given as gifts to Europeans by indigenous people of the Northern Woodlands, a collection of wampum belts, beads and artifacts are again in traditional Haudenosaunee ...
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