The Indians renewed a prior alliance, exchanged
wampum belts and presents, and determined their next step.
A solitary strike: the attack at Michilimackinac
In 1637, just months before declaring war, the English had adopted the use of
wampum as legal tender.
From furs and wampum to slot machines and megadollars
In fact the colonists even used
wampum among themselves due to the shortage of European money.
Money: a pictorial history
The Gus-Wen-Tah, or "Two-Row
Wampum," was first negotiated between Dutch settlers and the nations of the Haudenosaunee confederacy.
The Two-Row Wampum: Has this metaphor for co-existence run its course?
Along with learning more about the Two Row
Wampum belt, Her Honour, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, arrived!
Quilt of Belonging: Loyalist Presentation at one of Canada 150's Travelling Exhibits
From day one, giant electrical towers looked like monstrous
wampum men towering over our landscape.
Vital Kinships: a conversation with Eric Gansworth & Arigon Starr
Driskill describes three decolonial skillshares they regularly enact in their classroom: the teaching of indigenous language (for 10 to 20 minutes at the start of each class meeting); the weaving of
wampum and the use of
wampum records for a
wampum recitation; and the weaving of baskets.
Other people's english: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American literacy and survivance, sovereignty, and story: Teaching American Indian rhetorics
Tad Mcllwraith, professor of anthropology at the University of Guelph, points to the fact that Native American elders acknowledge the
wampum belt as a shared cultural artifact that is as much a settler object as it is a Native American object (2016).
Respectful approaches: indigenous culture competency and camp
Where Chapter 1 sets the foundation and tone for the rest of the book, Chapter 2 discusses "the meaning of culture and traditions." Covering not only "ten thousand years of culture," but also a vast geography, and practices from potlatch through storytelling, to
wampum belts and dance, Chapter 2 offers a beautifully presented celebration of the richness and diversity of Indigenous society.
Larry Loyie with Wayne K. Spear and Constance Brissenden, Residential Schools with the Words and Images of Survivors--A National Story
A few of these include
wampum belts, beads and treaties like the Royal
Indigenize or die: a statement of fact?
The Grand River can be engaged as a metaphor for the Two Row
Wampum treaty agreements, which the Haudenausaunee have continually offered settlers since the first agreements with the Dutch in 1613, British in 1677, and even the French at the 1701 Great Peace of Montreal.
We are renewable: reconciling peaceful relations between First Nations and Canada requires burying the weapons of the past
The first chapter, for example, discusses the transition of
wampum from a ceremonial item used to build relationships among Native Americans to a currency shared by Europeans and Native Americans.
Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England
together is like the two-row
wampum: two canoes going in the same
Era of reconciliation: A sacred relationship
American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to
Wampum; 2 volume set
American Indian Culture: From Counting Coup to Wampum; 2 volume set
When the Two Row
Wampum was created, it was understood that from time to time the two peoples would have need of one another as brothers.
The two row wampum renewal campaign and the demand for sovereignty