Photographs (left to right): Bracket Fungus, Adirondacks, New York; Black headed Vultures, Florida; Dry Falls, Washington

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Residential Schools Belt

 

Close up showing the nine purple wampum from the 1650's

Original Concept (R. D. Hamell)

Oct. 23 2019

 

Original Size:	Beaded Length: 16 inches. Width: 3.5 inches. Rows wide: 7.
	Total length with fringe: 40.0 inches.
Beads:	Rows: 101 by 7 beads wide. Total 717 beads. 6 purple wampum 1640s.
Materials:	Warp: artificial sinew. Weave: artificial sinew. Polymer beads and six true wampum

Description:

The color orange embodies travesty of the discovery of First Nations children graves at the Indian Residential Schools in Canada and the United States. Children were forcefully removed from their homes the government institutions operated by mainly the Roman Catholic
Church (70%). The number of children (Canada) who never came home is 4,000 to 5,000 and over 1.300 in the United Sates (2021). The 17th century wampum in the center is to have the ancestor bring the children home.