Iroquois Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve reading Wampum belts / Chefs iroquois de la réserve des Six-Nations en train de lire des ceintures wampum.
Canada
Legal order
Indigenous Peoples
This is a photograph of Iroquois Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve reading Wampum belts
Unknown
Library and Archives Canada
Sept. 14, 1871
Public Domain
Credit: / Electric Studio / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / C-085137 / Electric Studio/Library and Archives Canada/C-085137
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English
Photograph
/ Electric Studio / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / C-085137 / Electric Studio/Library and Archives Canada/C-085137
Two Row Wampum – Gusweñta
Canada
history
Indigenous peoples
treaty
Two Row Wampum
The following description is adapted from Onondaga Nation, People of the Hills, "Two Row Wampum – Gusweñta", online: <a href="http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/" target="_blank">http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/</a> <br /><blockquote>Two rows of blue, each symbolizing a different nation. Separated and surrounded by three rows of white; one for peace, another for friendship and the last for forever. This is what was built into the Two Row Wampum, an agreement made between the Haudenosaunee and the Dutch upon European arrival in North America. The Wampum ensured that Europeans and First Nations, while living side by side on the same land, would refrain from interfering in each other’s nations.</blockquote>
Haudenosaunee Nation and Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (the Dutch Republic)
Onondaga Nation, People of the Hills, "Two Row Wampum – Gusweñta", online: <a href="http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/" target="_blank">http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/</a>
Onondaga Nation, People of the Hills, online: <a href="http://www.onondaganation.org/" target="_blank">http://www.onondaganation.org/</a>
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Image (c) Onondaga Nation
nondaga Nation, People of the Hills, "Two Row Wampum – Gusweñta", online: <a href="http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/" target="_blank">http://www.onondaganation.org/culture/wampum/two-row-wampum-belt-guswenta/</a>
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Symbolic
Wampum belt