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...
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Wampum is a borough in southern Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 557 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan...
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The Two Row Wampum Treaty, also known as Guswenta or Kaswentha and as the Tawagonshi Agreement of 1613 or the Tawagonshi Treaty, is a mutual treaty agreement...
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Wampum Run is a tributary of the Beaver River in western Pennsylvania. The stream rises in south-central Lawrence County and flows northeast entering the...
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"stringing wampum and seeking someone who should understand the thirteen-string ceremony of condolence and take away his grief by the spell of the wampum." Finally...
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Shinnecock Indian Nation (section Wampum)
the other Native peoples of Long Island, the Shinnecock made wampumpeag (wampum), shell beads strung onto threads that were used as currency, for record-keeping...
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Iroquois (section Wampum belts)
legislation. The term "wampum" refers to beads made from purple and white mollusk shells on threads of elm bark. Species used to make wampum include the highly...
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They also do a public confession of sins upon a string of wampum (shell beads). The wampum is employed in all matters of public importance. Their funerals...
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back to the original uniting of the five tribes of the Haudenosaunee. The wampum belt was a symbol of unity between the five (and later six) tribes for hundreds...
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Foxwoods Resort Casino (redirect from Wampum Card)
Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel and casino complex owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on their reservation located in Ledyard...
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in the creation of wampum, which is a traditional shell bead made by the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. White wampum beads are made of the...
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keepers of the "Wampum Record" and one of the last Wabanaki/Passamaquoddy delegates to go to Caughnawaga was Sepiel Selmo. Keepers of the wampum record were...
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Wampum Ecological Reserve is an ecological reserve located within Sandilands Provincial Forest, Manitoba, Canada. It was established in 1978 under the...
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called the Dish With One Spoon treaty, and its associated wampum belt the Dish With One Spoon wampum.: 217–218 The treaty territory includes part of the province...
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English influences. She is most known for her books of poetry The White Wampum (1895), Canadian Born (1903), and Flint and Feather (1912); and her collections...
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lucrative trade in wampum—beads of significant cultural and economic importance to Native tribes across the Northeast. The wampum was primarily made by...
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election will have to wait until December 2026. Allen died at his home in Wampum, Pennsylvania, on December 7, 2020, at age 78. List of Major League Baseball...
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Kent claim that a wampum belt in their possession serves as authentication that such a meeting did indeed take place; however, the wampum belt cannot prove...
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Lampropeltis getula (redirect from Wampum snake)
pilot, thunder-and-lightning snake, thunderbolt, thunder snake, wamper, wampum snake. L. getula is found in the southeastern United States from southern...
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Native polities on the eastern Atlantic seaboard made valuable beads called wampum from the shells, especially those colored purple; the species name mercenaria...
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included what is now the borough of Wampum. Wampum became a separate borough on February 19, 1876, the same year that the Wampum Cement and Lime Company began...
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The belt of wampum delivered to Penn by Native Americans at the signing of the Great Treaty in 1682...
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Shattuck". Much of the history was taken from wampum belts; Sidis explained, "The weaving of wampum belts is a sort of writing by means of belts of...
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Great Lakes and extending east and north, used strings or belts called wampum that served a dual function: the knots and beaded designs mnemonically chronicled...
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Fulton 705 30.5 23.1 2016 Bridgewater borough Beaver 704 0.7 967.0 2016 Wampum borough Lawrence 704 1.0 682.8 2018 Beech Creek borough Clinton 703 0.6...
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the past used by the Algonquians of Eastern North America to manufacture wampum, a type of sacred jewellery; and to make shell money. Edible: Ark clams...
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Megissogwon was the spirit of wealth, protected by an armoured shirt of wampum beads. Hiawatha shoots in vain, until he has only three arrows left. Mama...
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Antalis pretiosa (formerly Dentalium pretiosum), commonly known as the Wampum tuskshell or the Indian money tusk is a species of tusk shell in the family...
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the oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy. The law was written on wampum belts, conceived by Dekanawidah, known as the Great Peacemaker, and his...
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A Pequot delegation presented magistrates in Boston with two bushels of wampum and a bundle of sticks representing the number of beavers and otters with...
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