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 -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. I recently read a mention in a magazine that Native American trade beads and ornaments, called wampum, were made from sea shells. Did Native Americans in our area make and use wampum? A. Yes. It ...

There is no wampum in the "Wampum World" installation now open at the Albany Institute of History & Art. There shouldn't be wampum. There can't be wampum, not any longer, not since the repatriation of ...