Introduction : why wampum? -- Money and language -- Foreign legal tender -- Translation and conversion -- Coins on paper -- What is wampum? -- Indian giving and Willie Wampum -- Money writing -- ...

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 ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Cracking a quahog shell with a deer antler is the first step in creating wampum beads and jewelry. But today, Native American artist Allen Hazard uses ...

CHARLESTOWN, R.I. — Should you wish to behold sparkling elegance, stop by The Purple Shell. Native Americans Allen L. Hazard Sr. and his wife, Patricia, will be delighted to show you the jewelry they ...

The purple edges of the quahog shell provided the material for the darker beads in wampum. (Clay Wollney) The Native Americans who once seasonally inhabited the shorelines of Staten Island came here ...

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 ...