Wampum Workshop

Calling all homeschoolers for this Native American cultural workshop led by Perry Ground at the Bergen Evangelical Presbyterian Church. During this session, students will learn the process of making a wampum bead, the meaning of several belts, how to create a belt, and the role wampum played in trade relationships between Native Peoples and European settlers. Each student will make and keep a Friendship Wampum, a contemporary craft with replica wampum beads.

This simulation is best suited for students in 3rd grade or higher who have a basic understanding of wealth and trade.

This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO Art!