Photographs (left to right): Mendon Ponds Park, Mendon, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Akwesasne Rafter Belt

Courtesy Six Nations Polytechic Institute

Conversation in Cultural Fluency Lecture Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DrKu736Kj4

 

 

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Description:

Onondaga reported in 1898 this belt was made when Akwesasne was accepted for membership in the League in 1888.

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Six Nations Polytechic Institute