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In this research, I examined the trade of shell wampum beads with the Dutch and how the trade facilitated the creation and maintenance of social memory among the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. I used ESRI ArcMap 10.8 to map the frequencies of wampum at late sixteenth and seventeenth…

During the seventeenth century in the Mohawk Valley, European trade goods became commonplace. However, little is known about how colonialism impacted Mohawk agricultural practice and foodways. This thesis presents paleoethnobotanical findings from ten Mohawk archaeological sites…

This study addresses questions of Haudenosaunee change through time. It explores these questions within a broad spectrum of contexts and examines a range of distinctions between changes initiated, advanced, embraced, resisted, and refused by the Haudenosaunee, including those th…