Wampum Belts Woven Through Anishinaabe History

November 4-8, 2025, marks Treaty Week in Ontario - an opportunity for us to deepen our understanding of legally binding treaties.

Ward 1, in partnership with Hamilton's Indigenous Relations Team, presents: Wampum Belts Woven Through Anishinaabe History, offered by knowledge keeper Brian Charles. The presentation will illuminate how wampum was used to record not only relationships and treaties between the First Peoples of the Eastern Woodland but also with settler societies in Canada.

Brian Charles is an off-reserve Band member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island and has worked collaboratively with a small group of knowledge keepers to research and assemble a physical repository of wampum belts connected to Ojibwa history. 

Tickets are free. Everyone welcome - registration appreciated.