Two Row Wampum TreatyWampum
The Two Row Wampum image, although Haudenosaunee in origin, is also recognized as the basis of all subsequent treaties with other Onkwehon:we Nations as well. “Jonathan told me they wanted to use the Two Row itself, and they wanted it in a circle with the three rows between, but to k...
The Two Row Wampum belt represents a treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Dutch about how the two nations would coexist with each other in the context of settler colonialism. The oral tradition of the Two Row Wampum states that the Haudenosaunee would travel down the river of life in a canoe...
Part of the 'Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign', the canoe trip was a symbolic enactment of what is known as the Tawagonshi Treaty, or, in the Iroquoian oral tradition, the Two Row Wampum Treaty (or Guswenta Treaty). This was a trade agreement said to have been struck in 1613 between...
The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign and the Demand for SovereigntyThe framers of the agreement were prescient. Indeed, the paper treaty has been lost to time,...Kimmerer, Robin Wall
The chapter title references tribal chief Donald Coolidge's connection between the historical Two-Strand Wampum Treaty and the contemporary Tribal Education Council's emphasis on 100% academic curriculum and 100% traditional Mohawk knowledge as a path forward on the individual and community level....