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  2. Wampum - Wikipedia

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    The National Museum of the American Indian repatriated eleven wampum belts to Haudenosaunee chiefs at the Onondaga Longhouse Six Nations Reserve in New York. These belts dated to the late 18th century and are sacred to the Longhouse religion. They had been away from their tribes for over a century. [1] [24]

  3. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Native American remains were on display in museums up until the 1960s. [129] Though many did not yet view Native American art as a part of the mainstream as of the year 1992, there has since then been a great increase in volume and quality of both Native art and artists, as well as exhibitions and venues, and individual curators.

  4. Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill)

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    The alliance between Britain and several Indian tribes seriously threatened the rebel colonists' chances of victory during the American Revolutionary War. In the portrait West signifies Johnson's role as ambassador to the Indians by equipping him in a red-coated uniform with moccasins, wampum belt, Indian blanket, and Mohawk cap.

  5. Treaty of Shackamaxon - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Lydia Wallace-Chavez - Wikipedia

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    A wampum necklace named Heart Protector that Wallace-Chavez made in 2019 was also featured at the Queens Museum as a part of the Artist-In-Residence Tecumseh Ceaser exhibit. Several of her wampum belts have also been commissioned by the Seneca Nation and other private collectors, including for the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. [3]

  7. Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    Hiawatha belt. The flag's design is based on the Hiawatha belt, a symbol which dates back to the original uniting of the five tribes of the Haudenosaunee. [1] The wampum belt was a symbol of unity between the five (and later six) tribes for hundreds of years prior to its adaptation for use as a flag.

  8. History of Canadian currencies - Wikipedia

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    Wampum belts, made of numerous tiny shells, were used by indigenous peoples in eastern Canada to measure wealth and as gifts. [1] Wampum belts were also used as currency during the early colonial period, and were recognised as legal tender in the early Dutch and British colonies.

  9. Four Mohawk Kings - Wikipedia

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    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".

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