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Cultural Corner 
May 16, 2013 
Moving the Fire
Reprinted from Vol. 12 # 14, October 28, 1994 In the Creation Story of the Hotenonshonni it tells how the first woman fell from the sky world onto...
Cultural Corner May 9, 2013 
The Key to Six Nations Pictographs
Reprinted from ‘Legends of the Iroquois’ by Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden) Continued from last week....
Cultural Corner May 2, 2013 
The Key to Six Nations Pictographs
Reprinted from ‘Legends of the Iroquois’ by Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden) Continued from last week....
Cultural Corner April 25, 2013 
The Key to Six Nations Pictographs
Reprinted from ‘Legends of the Iroquois’ by Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden) Continued from last week....
Cultural Corner April 18, 2013 
The Key to Six Nations Pictographs
Reprinted from ‘Legends of the Iroquois’ by Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden) Continued from last week....
Cultural Corner April 11, 2013 
The Key to Six Nations Pictographs
Reprinted from ‘Legends of the Iroquois’ by Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden) Continued from last week....
Cultural Corner April 4, 2013 
The Key to Six Nations Pictographs
Reprinted from ‘Legends of the Iroquois’ by Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden) Picture writing is a means of expressing thoughts or recording events by mar...
Cultural Corner March 28, 2013 The Great Peace
Reprinted from ‘Legends of the Iroquois’ by Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden) Forward by Nadine N. Jennings Sometime in the centuries prior to the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Mohawk,...
Cultural Corner March 21, 2013 
Unknown Belts
There are many, many wampum belts that we know of whose meanings have been lost. Some were bought from individual Indians who, in many cases, had no r...
Cultural Corner March 14, 2013 
An Unwilling Gift From The Dead
This is a replica of a belt which was offered for sale in October 1972, by collectors through a Park Avenue auction gallery. The original was dug up...
Cultural Corner March 7, 2013 
Six Nations Unity Strings
Six strings of purple wampum united at one end stand for the Six Nations. When this was laid in a circle the council was open. When it was taken up...
Cultural Corner February 28, 2013 
When The Akwesasne Mohawks Were Taken Back In Belt
This belt symbolizes the alliance of an adopted nation. This belt was made to record the time in 1885 when the Akwesasne (St. Regis) Mohawks were...
Cultural Corner February 21, 2013 
A Black Hawk Belt
The Iroquois were not the only Indian people who used wampum belts. This belt was sent by Chief Black Hawk, the famous Sauk leader and patriot of the...
Cultural Corner February 14, 2013 
Confessional Wampum of Handsome Lake
This wampum is ten strings, all white, all pure and sacred, held in the hands of the followers of the Prophet while confessing sins before the...
Cultural Corner February 7, 2013 
Fort Stanwix Treaty Belt
This belt was exchanged at the signing of the Treaty between the Six Nations and the United States at Fort Stanwix (Rome, N .Y.) Oct. 22, 1784. At...
Cultural Corner January 31, 2013 
George Washington Belt
This belt, called the George Washington Belt, is a covenant belt with the thirteen original United States. The thirteen large figures of men...
Cultural Corner January 24, 2013 
Revolutionary War Two Road Belt
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War the Iroquois tried to remain neutral, but it did not take them long to realize that neither the English nor...
Cultural Corner January 17, 2013 
WOLF BELT
This belt was an Akwesasne or St. Regis Belt and once belonged to Chief Running Deer of the Akwesasne Mohawks. The center figures, two men, represent...
Cultural Corner January 10, 2013 
Caughnawaga – Oka St. Regis Belt
This belt is sometimes called the Seven Nations Belt. It is a record belt, that is, it records a happening. It means this: Their path is not...
Cultural Corner December 20, 2012 Thanksgiving Address
We direct our attention to the Life Forces on Mother Earth; To the waters, which quench our thirst and provides for the well being and the strength of plant life; to animals, who provide us with...
Cultural Corner December 13, 2012 
Governor Denny’s Invitation Belt
Reprinted from WAMPUM BELTS of the IROQUOIS By Tehanetorens This wampum belt was sent by Governor Denny of the Pennsylvania Province to the Indians,...
Cultural Corner December 6, 2012 
DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH Record Belt
Reprinted from WAMPUM BELTS of the IROQUOIS By Tehanetorens This is an Onondaga belt and was made as a record. A French priest who was stationed at...
Cultural Corner November 29, 2012 
Sir William Johnson Dish Belt
Reprinted from WAMPUM BELTS of the IROQUOIS By Tehanetorens This belt is called the Sir William Johnson Dish Belt by its owner. It was supposed to...
Cultural Corner November 29, 2012 
Delaware Land Belt
Reprinted from WAMPUM BELTS of the IROQUOIS By Tehanetorens This belt records the conditions under which the Lenni-Lenape or Delaware Nation ceded a...
Cultural Corner November 21, 2012 
Iroquois Territory Wampum Strings
Reprinted from WAMPUM BELTS of the IROQUOIS By Tehanetorens It is provided thus: A bunch of wampum strings is to be the symbol of the Council Fire of...
