Photographs (left to right): Taughannock Falls State Park, New York; Beach, Florida; Sumac, Rush, New York

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Grand Council of the Delawares

1992

Cur its Zunigha of the Eastern Oklahoma Delawares and Bruce Stonefish of the Moraviantown Delawares passes belt to Curtis.

 

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Cur its Zunigha of the Eastern Oklahoma Delawares and Bruce Stonefish of the Moraviantown Delawares passes belt to Curtis. In other Photo Munsee takes the belt from Barlesville Oklahoma Delawares, each person taking the belt is to host the next Gathering. So Munsee will now host the next Gathering. The old council of the Delaware Grand Council of North America has changed so that the elected Chiefs and Councils will now hold the office of the traditional cultural council set up firstly in 1992. A new belt will show a 5th figure for the New York/-New Jersey groups. Hopefully the Wisconsin Stockbridge group will be added also so that we have 6 figures on the belt in the new future. Rena Dennison might be the person to make the new belt but maybe Shirley Baker can make the belt as she is a member of Moraviantown and a crafts person. Shirley is from the Tobias and Noah families.

Thanks to Maurice Switzer for this information.

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