When Europeans began traveling in masses to the New World during the 17th century, many arrived with little more than the clothes on their backs. Having spent virtually every last bit of available ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historical accounts suggest that the garment hung down several feet from his shoulders, interwoven with designs that represented ...

Wampum, a purple and white bead, comes from Native American culture in the southern New England area. Allen Hazard of the Narragansett tribe has been making wampum from quahogs, or hard-shell clams, ...

Seven wampum beads have been discovered during excavations at a 17th-century colony in Newfoundland. Hundreds of years ago, Indigenous inhabitants of North America created the small, cylindrical ...

People all across the province have been given the opportunity to help craft a traditional wampum belt. The wampum belt is a traditional Indigenous craft and story telling device. Crafters use ...

Seven tiny beads unearthed in Newfoundland, Canada, are a rare discovery — they may be the only wampum ever found in the province, and they hint at trade between Indigenous people and European ...

An Akwesasne artist making contemporary wampum belts says he thinks of strands of purple and white wampum beads as Morse code. The tubular beads made from quahog shells were used ornamentally or ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Making wampum is turning into one of corporate America's ...