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    The Two Row Wampum Treaty, also known as Guswenta or Kaswentha and as the Tawagonshi Agreement of 1613 or the Tawagonshi Treaty, is a mutual treaty agreement...
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    gifts, and recording important treaties and historical events, such as the Two Row Wampum Treaty and the Hiawatha Belt. Wampum was also used by the northeastern...
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  • Indian Reservations. The Two Row Times name originates from the Two Row Wampum Treaty and is based on the principle of unity through diversity. The publication...
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    Nation to Nation: Treaties, curated by Indian rights activist Suzan Shown Harjo. The exhibit is built around the Two Row Wampum Treaty, known from both...
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    Andelot. Also known as the Treaty of Tudmir. Also known as the Treaty of Tudején. Also known as the Treaty of Winchester or the Treaty of Westminster. Also...
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    of wampum were used for storytelling, ceremonial gifts, and recording important treaties and historical events, such as the Two Row Wampum Treaty and...
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    Process Douglas Treaties Indian Act James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement Robinson Treaties Two Row Wampum Treaty "Numbered Treaty Overview". Canada...
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  • The fort was defended by two large cannon and eleven swivel guns. The fort was garrisoned by 10-12 men. Two Row Wampum Treaty Fort Nassau (South River)...
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    Seeger was in New York City for the 400-year commemoration of the Two Row Wampum Treaty between the Iroquois and the Dutch. On an interview he gave that...
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  • Covenant Chain (category Treaties of indigenous peoples of North America)
    England to the Colony of Virginia. The Covenant Chain is embodied in the Two Row Wampum of the Iroquois, known as the people of the longhouse - Haudenosaunee...
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  • driving away the Indians from the ship by two shots from the guns. Fort Nassau (North River) Two Row Wampum Treaty Adrian Jorisszen Tienpoint Hallowell, Christopher...
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    throughout what is now the northeastern United States. The Guswhenta (Two Row Wampum Treaty), made with the Dutch government in 1613, codified relations between...
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    youth in support of the movement Numbered Treaties Status of First Nations treaties in B.C. Two Row Wampum Treaty Indigenous concerns over the Keystone pipeline...
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    being presented. Treaty making often involved wampum belts to signify the importance of the treaty. A famous example is "The Two Row Wampum" or "Guesuenta"...
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  • were typically secured through treaties. The Iroquois were among the first to do so, forming the Two Row Wampum Treaty with the Dutch Crown in 1613, which...
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  • Great Law of Peace, the concept of the Seventh Generation, the Two Row Wampum Treaty and the Confederacy. Beth Brant is an essayist and short-story writer...
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  • the United States or Canadian governments. The people claim that the Two Row Wampum (Guswhenta) guarantees Ganienkeh the right to exist as a sovereign entity...
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    (1997). "Wampum at Niagara: The Royal Proclamation, Canadian Legal History, and Self-Government" (PDF). In Michael Asch (ed.). Aboriginal and Treaty Rights...
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  • Haudenosaunee's wampum belt; she stresses the continuity and unification of rivers, similar to the coexistence principles and symbols of the wampum belt. "Words...
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  • countered the papal bulls with the Two Row Wampum conditionally accepting the bulls, stating through the two row wampum: "You say that you are our Father...
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    Logstown (category Peace treaties of the United States)
    purpose was to return three belts of wampum sent by the French as a symbol of friendship. Returning the wampum was a gesture intended to show that the...
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    supplied them with pelts in exchange for European-made trade goods and wampum, which was soon being made by the Dutch on Long Island. In 1621, the Dutch...
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    the oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy. The law was written on wampum belts, conceived by Dekanawidah, known as the Great Peacemaker, and his...
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    as evidenced by the wampum belts found in the area, which were used for diplomatic purposes among local Native American tribes. Two glacial erratics in...
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  • September 1639 Director Willem Kieft decided to levy a tax in pelts, maize or wampum on Indian peoples surrounding New Amsterdam. In May 1640 the Director ordered...
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    Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to Two-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680. 1650-53: Huron survivors of the Beaver Wars settle at...
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    History of Akwesasne" Archived October 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The Wampum Chronicles, accessed February 1, 2010 "New Ireland: How Maine almost became...
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    for cooperation via the precepts of the Kaswentha, or Two-Row Wampum. The Kaswentha is a treaty belt that represents a 17th-century agreement between...
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    falcon from the Mound City Group site of the Hopewell culture Great Treaty wampum belt given from the Lenape to William Penn, Pennsylvania, 1682 One fine...
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  • Movie Data Base (IMDB). Retrieved 19 March 2024. "Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign | Honoring Native Treaties | Protecting the Earth". Honorthetworow.org. 13...
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