Shell belts used as money were called wampums
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While the Native people did not use wampums as money originally, when Europeans came to the Americas, they realized the importance of wampum to Native people and soon, they were trading wampum shells with the native peoples of New England and New York. The New England colonies demonetized wampum in 1663, but it continued as currency in New York until 1673.
Other cultures also used shells as money - see the related link below.
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it could be used for,storytelling,adding on to history,asking for marrige,gifts,to show an agreement between two groups of people,and to declare a war or reuest peace between two groups. I'm glad i helped
there were lots of money
The US used the same money as it does now.
The Indians did not have money they used the trading system.
The characteristics of a wampum belt is it is made out of white and purple beads and made of certain kinds of seashell's. Each string or belt holds a different message. The use of wampum stings or belts suggested the seriousness of the message and the sincerity of whoever made it. A wampum keeper was responsible for caring for the wampum and reading it. The reader would pass this hand over top of it ,bead by bead using the texture top remind him of the event or treaties it recorded. Wampum keepers were chosen by the clan they trained at a young age younger then 12 to remember the information on the belts and tell it in a dramatic and poetic way. Iroquois women made the wampum belts.