Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historical accounts suggest that the garment hung down several feet from his shoulders, interwoven with designs that represented ...

Seven tiny wampum beads were found at the Colony of Avalon in Ferryland earlier this summer. They are believed to be the first wampum beads found in the province. (Henrike Wilhelm/CBC) Archaeologists ...

Paula Peters and Linda Coombs gently unravel the community wampum belt they helped create, revealing 3,570 wampum beads, which bind together to give life to powerful totems like the whale, turtle, ...

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 ...

An Akwesasne artist making contemporary wampum belts says he thinks of strands of purple and white wampum beads as Morse code. The tubular beads made from quahog shells were used ornamentally or ...

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 ...

There’s a growing movement to spread the word that the first agreement made 400 years ago between Native Americans and European settlers is not only still valid, but has relevance today. In 1613 in ...

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 ...