Photographs (left to right): Grand Canyon, Tennessee; Maplewood Park, Rochester, New York, Grand Canyon, Tennessee

Wampum Belt Archive

 

Onondaga Hiawatha Confederacy Belt

An important Haudenosaunee wampum belt has been returned to the Onondaga Nation.

Gregg Tripoli, executive director of the Onondaga Historical Association Museum and Research Center, presented the wampum belt to Tadodaho Sidney Hill, the spiritual leader of the Onondaga Nation and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, during a ceremony at the museum in Syracuse on Tuesday, June 12.

Photography: Indian Country -Today Media Network.Com


Original Belt once on display at the Onondaga HIstorical Museum and

Research Center (Courtesy Onondaga Nation)

 

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The history of this belt was given.


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