Ruth B. Phillips is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is a former director of the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology.

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Renewal of the Two Row Treaty in 2013, affirmed by Andy Mager, Hickory Edwards, Netherlands Consul Rob de Vos, Chief Jake Edwards and Faithkeeper Oren Lyons in New York, August 2013

Shell co-operation: the art of making peace in North America

Native American belts made of wampum shells have long fulfilled a diplomatic purpose – and as such are very much a living art

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