Wampum: Reading the Talk with Brian Charles

See this presentation (Feb 15, 2:30-4:00) and this one (same day, 6:00) in Toronto for another example of wampum’s continuing importance to Native communities, in this case among the Ojibway people.

Using replica wampum belts in this special presentation, [Brian Charles] will illuminate a path that not only interconnects the nations and histories of First Peoples in the Eastern Woodland, but also of settler societies in Canada.

Brian Charles is

an off-reserve Band member of the Chippewas of Georgian Island and has lived in the Barrie region for over forty years.  He has worked as an Aboriginal Liaison at both the provincial and federal levels for over twenty years.  He currently resides along the western shoreline of Lake Simcoe on the outskirts of the village of Hawkestone.