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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, made in 1613 between representatives of the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) and representatives of the Dutch government in what is now upstate New York. [1]
The Covenant Chain is embodied in the Two Row Wampum of the Iroquois, known as the people of the longhouse - Haudenosaunee. It was based in agreements negotiated between Dutch settlers in New Netherland (present-day New York) and the Five Nations of the Iroquois (or Haudenosaunee) early in the 17th century.
Before European contact, strings of wampum were used for storytelling, ceremonial gifts, and recording important treaties and historical events, such as the Two Row Wampum Treaty [2] [3] and the Hiawatha Belt. Wampum was also used by the northeastern Indigenous tribes as a means of exchange, [4] strung together in lengths for convenience. The ...
During a treaty gathering in 1840, Six Nations wampum keeper John Skanawati Buck [18] [dubious – discuss] presented four wampum belts, including one which commemorated the Dish With One Spoon. [ 4 ] : 221–222 Buck stated it represented the first treaty, to share hunting grounds, made between the Anishinaabe and the Six Nations many years ...
The wampum belt was a significant item to the Iroquois people that serves to remember the meeting and to represent an alliance that cannot be broken unless the belt is returned. [7] The people of London described Tee Yee Ho Ga Row as tall and handsome, his complexion showed "the shadowed livery of the burnished sun".
Birch's Views of Philadelphia, an 1800 portrait The wampum belt given to William Penn by the Indians at the "Great Treaty" under the Shackamaxon elm tree in 1682. The site of the treaty was a meeting place that was used by the Lenape Native American tribe in North America.
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In 1970, his community presented him with three sacred wampum belts, precious historical records and artifacts. [4] The three Wampum Belts that were under his care are: [2] [6] the Seven Fires Prophecy Belt (considered a founding document of the Algonquin Nation); the Jay Treaty Border Crossing Belt; and; the Three Figure Welcoming/Agreement ...