Two Row Wampum
To live together in a good way as Indigenous and non-Indigenous people was agreed to between the Haudenosaunee and Dutch in 1613 and still serves as a model today. The Two Row Wampum Treaty acknowledges the agreement that the two nations will live side-by-side in a relationship of peace, friendship, respect, and non-interference for as long as the water flows downhill, the grass grows green, and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The image of the wampum belt is of two vessels, a canoe, and a ship, traveling down a river, in a relationship of reciprocity and respect. That is what it means to live life together in a good way.
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