In the 1600s, when the Wampanoag people on Cape Cod held ceremonial events, their leader, Metacom (aka King Philip), would have been a prominent stand-out, wearing an intricately fashioned wampum belt ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

12 cylindrical shell beads and wampum, white and purple. They are attached to a box with a label in old handwriting: "Wampum - Beads from the grave of a daughter of Ninigret, Sachem of the Nyantic ...

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 ...

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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 ...