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Definitions of wampum in various dictionaries:
noun - informal terms for money
noun - small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts
Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts, formerly used by certain Native American peoples as currency and jewelry or for ceremonial exchanges between groups.
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| Algonquian ATM output(6) |
| Only East Coast Indians originally used this word for money made of shells |
| Term for the strings of tubular shell beads used by Native Americans in lieu of money |
| These polished shell beads were woven into belts by Native Americans & traded or used to send messages |
| The name of this currency made out of shells comes from the Algonquin for "white" |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports) This currency was once also used as jewelry |
| To white settlers, the beads with this Indian name were currency; the Indians turned them into belts, as seen here |
| Native Americans once cut the shells of quahogs into beads & used them for this medium of exchange |
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Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of American Indians. It includes the white shell beads fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and the white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. It was used by the northeastern Indian tribes as a form of gift exchange, and the colonists adopted it as currency in trading with them. Eventually, the colonists developed more efficient methods of producing wampum, which caused inflation and ultimately its obsolescence as currency. * Wampum was often kept on strings like Chinese cash. Before European contact, strings of wampum were used for storytelling, ceremonial gifts, and recording important treaties and historical events, such as the Two Row Wampum Treaty. According to the Onondaga Nation, the wampum is a living record and has many uses. These can include inviting a person to a meeting, showing title, and showing that a speaker is truthful. At the Treaty of N |