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What is a wampum?
What is a wampum?
This is a special belt, created by women, and made of special shells in the colours of white and purple. Each belt contained a different message that was suggested to be serious and sincere, depending on who made it.
Canada has written a set of rules , the Constitution. The Iroquois Confederacy was established based the Great Law of Peace -- similar in purpose as the Constitution. One way that the Iroquois were able to remember the Great Law was by using a wampum belt.
One person was responsible for caring for the wampum and reading of the belt, bead by bead. Each wampum keeper was selected at a young age and trained to read, care and taught to remember the information and retell it in a poetic way.
The Hiawatha Wampum
The Hiawatha Wampum
Without having access to writing materials, there was no way to record the Great Law. Using the wampum beads, a belt was created that shows the 5 original nations begin connected with a row of white beads. This row represents the path of peace between all the nations.
Image below found on Haudenosaunee Guide
Read Who Was Hiawatha? and respond to the questions on Who was Hiawatha document in Workspace: Section Chapter 4 Submit your work when you have finished.
Lapbook Work
Lapbook Work
Cut out each rectangle.
We will be cutting out the Wampum Belt and the Longhouse.
DO NOT CUT the line above each picture; only cut the outside rectangle that is highlighted in red below.
Fold each rectangle in half so that the image is on the OUTSIDE.
Write the following information on the INSIDE of the folded rectangle, making sure to start at the top (the image will be on the other side of this part).
Glue the back of the paper that you just wrote all the information on, in your lapbook. Make sure the picture is facing the outside. You can see in the image below where to put the cutouts.
The Hiawatha Wampum Belt
Records the structure and principles of the Iroquois Confederacy
Each figure represents one of the original 5 nations
A white line joins the nations to each other representing peace
The Guswentah: The Two Row Wampum Treaty
The two row treaty represents the mutual respect, peace, and friendship that were meant to be a part of the original treaty.
The Longhouse
Built with wooden-pole framework covered in bark
Where the men's and women's councils met
Families lived together here
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