Making wampum is turning into one of corporate America's fastest-growing businesses. No, companies like General Electric, Disney and Time Warner haven't taken to carving beads out of seashells, the ...

Wampum, a purple and white bead, comes from Native American culture in the southern New England area. Allen Hazard of the Narragansett tribe has been making wampum from quahogs, or hard-shell clams, ...

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 ...

In three days, the opening episode of the long-awaited new PBS special “We Shall Remain” will be nationally broadcast. As described more fully on March 27, this will be a five-part American Experience ...

Among Eastern Woodland tribes, wampum has traditionally been used as adornment in the fashioning of beads for necklaces, earrings and belts, and as a medium of trade. The word “wampum” comes from the ...

Wampum is a fascinating subject: the Shinnecock people fashioned local shells into beads that became the medium of currency among northeastern native peoples, and even were used as a medium of ...

WAMPUM ― Jonathan A. Landell is a flute maker extraordinaire, known as "One Man, One Flute." Following the traditions of the 18th-century artisans, the Landell Flute is the creation of Landell from ...

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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 ...

Jonathan Lainey is the curator of Indigenous cultures at the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal and a member of the Huron-Wendat Nation. (Ka’nhehsí:io Deer/CBC - image credit) Hundreds of years after ...

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