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Learning the Two Row Wampum Treaty

2/22/2021

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What's the banner the marchers are holding in the photo here? What do those two purple stripes symbolize? If you're a non-Indigenous North American, you can be forgiven for not knowing; your education failed you.

The photo itself is from a 2019 protest for Indigenous rights that took place in Toronto. So, do you know the answer?
Protesters carry the two row wampum at an Indigenous rights march in downtown Toronto, 2019. (Photo: Justin Brake/APTN)
(Photo: Justin Brake/APTN)

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    R.B. Young is the author of the novel Crimes of Disrespect and of short stories in Canadian and American literary journals. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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