Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Cracking a quahog shell with a deer antler is the first step in creating wampum beads and jewelry. But today, Native American artist Allen Hazard uses ...

Ken Maracle, a member of the Cayuga Nation, has remade more than 50 historic belts that Indigenous nations used in the negotiation and confirmation of agreements. By Alec Scott Photographs and Video ...

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 ...

The purple edges of the quahog shell provided the material for the darker beads in wampum. (Clay Wollney) The Native Americans who once seasonally inhabited the shorelines of Staten Island came here ...